High Coup Journal - April 2011 Issue

(Photo actually NOT by Ann Wright, Plymouth, IN.  This is an anonymous photo.)

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IN THIS ISSUE:

Salvatore Buttaci (Princeton, WV)

Tom Carbaugh (Plymouth, IN)

Sarah Dubinsky (Dunellen, NJ )

Samuel Franklin (Terre Haute, IN)

Rick Hartwell (Moreno Valley, California)

Kevin James (Terre Haute, IN)

Edward Jones (Stevens Point, WI)

Hal O’Leary (Wheeling, WV)

Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert (Norfolk, MA)

Mitzi Sicking (Midland, TX)

Jari Thymian (Aurora, CO)

Henry Visotski (Brooklyn, NY)

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Editor's Note:

SPAM: discovered love,

just like bad haiku, I think.

So sweet, so salty.

People might make fun of SPAM for being gross or slimy or covered in "spucus" (the fat that congeals at the top of a can that's so akin to mucus), but what has been enlightening about this contest is the fact that we've gotten some Hawaiians and WWII veterans who really stood up and said, Hey, SPAM is a food we like.  As with anything (apart from haiku), we recommend SPAM in moderation.  But just as they say "there are no atheists in foxholes," we suspect there are few vegans.

EDIT: Strike that.  One of our veteran poets confirmed that he is now a vegetarian.  Twelve years in the SPAM-a-lot army may have done that to him.  And as for the contest, one good sport mentioned, "Although I am sad to not have won the grand prize, I can console myself with the fact that the grand prize was SPAM."  Thank you all for submitting!

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Tom Carbaugh

It isn't Kosher,

but it's got the sodium

that your body needs.

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Sarah Dubinsky

How SPAM-alicious

The can's rendering of you

All pig and all parts

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Samuel Franklin 

Sacrificial SPAM

Flesh-cube, poor piglets

were spiced and mashed to make you. 

Thanks, piggy martyrs.

Best Sex Ever

Pink ‘neath her panties

reeked of slimy SPAM. Greasy

screw, lunch is on you.   

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Edward Jones

 SPAM is like pussy:

more time's spent getting it out

than in eating it

SPAM is like pussy:

more men have died eating it

than have needed to

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Salvatore Buttaci

mostly pork shoulder

chopped in a glaze of aspic

sandwiched in white bread

a simple wedding--

they toast with empty glasses

and dine on hot SPAM

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Mitzi Sicking

Spam-alicious

Fry it up and slide

Between two white bread slices.

Slap your mama good.

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Henry Visotski

Hey kids, daddy's home!

Delicious SPAM for dinner.

Now we feast like kings.

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Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert

On a post-war Earth--

nuclear fallout; SPAM mutates;

it becomes sentient.

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Kevin James

The Hawaiian steak

Should be something tropical

Not spiced shoulder meat

Here! Salty war meat!

It’s great food for the road and

Helps fight the Nazis!

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Hal O’Leary

Warmth

Warmth in a frozen

fox-hole, comfort surrounds us

my K-ration spam.

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Rick Hartwell

Hawaiian delight

meaty subversive mixture

canned fat concoction

Ks Cs MREs

60 years Spam goes to war

move pork futures up

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April 2011 AWESOME SAUCE and SPAM-KU SPECIAL winner: Jari Thymian

my grandma’s love-wich

homemade bread with pan-fried Spam

died, gone to heaven

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Look for SPAM all month,

and then we'll never again

tackle this topic.

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