SHAM-35.
Next-door barbecue.
Smell of T-bones waft over.
Eat SPAM with closed eyes.
SHAM-41.
Winter trailer home:
Bills unpaid--no heat inside.
Raw SPAM for dinner.
SHAM-42.
How to feed twelve mouths:
SPAM and Hamburger Helper
Spread thin on white bread.
SHAM-43.
Housing project dump:
Rats rattling the empty cans,
Stench of rotting pigs.
SHAM-72.
Freetown restaurant:
Imitation Third-World SPAM--
What "ham" really means.
SHAM-78.
A prostitute leans
From a rusty balcony
Spooning from a can.
SHAM-79.
The empty cupboard
Echoes with destitution,
The last can consumed.
SHAM-80.
Beggar, can in hand,
Seeks passers-by's sympathy:
"My last meal was SPAM."
SHAM-86.
Unwed teen mom spoon-
Feeds self, infant from can: "One
For you, two for me."
SHAM-128.
At checkout counter
Cashier rejects food stamps.
Says, "SPAM is not food."
61.
Pennies to my name
Enough for a can of SPAM
I would rather starve
225.
Memories of days
waiting in employment lines--
long days without SPAM
290.
Flunked out of high school,
Now work in SPAM factory.
My teacher was right.
574.
Two bums all alone
Famished: SPAM or dead rat? Gross!
They split the dead rat.
603.
Hold tight, street person!
Wise-ass crow on the dumpster
is eyeing your SPAM.
628.
Bum with hole in shoe
Finds Elmer's and SPAM. Eats glue,
patches hole with SPAM.
783.
A buck forty-nine
bought a feast: SPAM with ramen
noodles on the side.
1129.
Newt slashes budget
Grateful wealthy pay no tax
Poor can't afford SPAM
1179.
Back in the '40s
Mom fed us fried SPAM for lunch;
We must have been poor.
1462.
you can buy a nice
prostitute in vietnam
for a can of spam
1584.
Blue-hair eating SPAM.
Retired; limited income.
Alpo costs too much.
2037.
Unemployment strikes.
Unfortunate workers trade
pensions for pink meat.
2088.
Homeless man, hand out.
I take SPAM can from my bag.
Abrupt refusal.
2469.
Bum with hole in shoe
finds pistol and SPAM. Eats SPAM,
then blows own head off.
2519.
Sent the heart of SPAM
to a local soup kitchen.
Eighteen winos died.
2693.
Greasy tin, French bread
on a cracked, plastic table:
A poor man's pâté.
2885.
Local grocery
always has SPAM or ramen
on sale for the poor.
3164.
Starving, desperate,
Jean Valjean swipes SPAM, is caught.
Pleads insanity.
3433.
Thinking about SPAM
Puts me in a somber mood
For I'm almost out
3454.
Poor man's boneless ham
Pig-part pudding of paupers
Doctors call you "rich"
3474.
In the factory,
For fallen morsels of SPAM
I vie with vermin.
3539.
Served raw on white bread
or heated using Sterno.
Too many choices.
3564.
For want of the price
of a tea and a slice of
SPAM the old man died.
3625.
Spam-a-doodle Spam-
a-diddle I wish my SPAM
just cost a nickel
3759.
Through the wall I hear
My neighbor say, "What good SPAM!"
I burn with envy.
3777.
"Slice it thin, please, sir,"
SPAM bringer tells cookout host.
"It must last all week."
4038.
Hungry homeless man
Is offered my SPAM sandwich.
"Thanks but no thanks, man."
4234.
Hard times in winter
Pink loaf is our only food
Don't save me any
4559.
Perfection uncanned
Like a beautiful redhead
Fresh from her trailer
4562.
SPAM by candle light
What could be more romantic?
Open the Night Train.
4748.
Digging in the trash,
Found leftover baby parts.
More SPAM for the poor.
4831.
we ran out of spam
so we sit here without food
why is life so bad?
4847.
A poor old woman
Eyes a half-priced can of SPAM
She chooses Alpo
5496.
Helping out the poor
I offered the needy SPAM
Bruises are healed now
5669.
This ol' student's life:
money for the basic needs,
textbooks, beer, and SPAM.
5707.
Key to life I found.
Abject poverty abound.
I used the SPAM key.
5708.
Starving homeless child
Still surprised to be drooling
SPAM-vapors rising
5782.
Woe--the man who kills
his cat for food instead of
fryin' up some SPAM.
5879.
Trailer park wedding
A piñata, Schlitz, and SPAM
Vegas honeymoon
5944.
SPAM, an acronymn
For Squirrels, Possums, And Mice.
The white trash turkey.
5946.
Mournful wife departs,
Fatherless child swept behind,
Sacrificed for SPAM.
6153.
I will always hear
the sound of the spoon scraping
bottom of the can.
6154.
Unwashed fork - gleaming
with SPAM on your tines. Speaks of
love and trailer parks.
6219.
SPAM gravy on bread
perfect gourmet finish to
trailer skirting fête
6220.
SPAM can in garbage:
Sanitation worker notes,
"Thought I had it tough."
6324.
For my redneck friends
I served cubes of SPAM and cheese
Trailer park hors d'oeuvres
6345.
The I.G.A. store
Food stamps buy SPAM and some beer
A big feast tonight!
6371.
SPAM and Velveeta,
A great view of the highway--
White trash paradise.
6552.
r. c. co-cola
mac cheeze spam mayo and more
in white trash heaven
6555.
payday a long way
spam and cat chow left today
wrestled the cat, lost
6578.
After college, I
could not find a job. So I
ate Spam and Ramen
6589.
In town, a sign says,
"All-you-can-eat-SPAM-dinner!"
Trailer park mecca.
6592.
The CIA hides
birth control hormones in SPAM
white trash goes extinct
6600.
Hunger now drives us
To take desperate measures
Today it is spam
6667.
It's pink and smelly,
Good when you are really broke.
Hey, let's have some now.
6808.
Its very presence
indicator of White Trash.
Cupboards never lie!
6844.
Tonight I ate SPAM
And White Castle hamburgers.
I sleep on the couch.
7291.
Millions are hungry
Welfare provides them with SPAM
The masses perish
7352.
Starving and helpless
A woman offers him SPAM
Starving, not stupid
7438.
Bum hits the jackpot:
Two warm beers and can of SPAM.
Detox overtime.
7785.
Trailer park trash meat
Arteriosclerosis
Keys on chains, dog not
7804.
Welfare man's delight
He devours it every night
Poor son of a bitch
7942.
A Hawaiian feast
SPAM sculpted like a roast pig
A white trash luau
8035.
Forced to eat SPAM or
die slowly of starvation--
Poverty is hell.
8165.
wasting time away
wishing for a million bucks
chewing SPAM like cud
8555.
somewhere gloomily
a rusty knife scrapes the can
for the last SPAM chunks