spam emails

How to “Read” spam emails

Most of us get them daily in our Inbox:

“congratulations! you have just inherited 20 million dollars.

To claim your inheritance, please contact Mr. Jameen Potusoola Smith - Attorney At Large- UK”

And, Most of us by now don’t go beyond the “Congratulations!”

before we click DELETE

But this is how I “read” them:

“Yo! you!

Yes, you!

The comfortable people

living in your lovely homes

in wealthy countries,

We are DYING here in Nigeria!!!

Yo!

you who complain about John Key

or Sara Palin

or Dick Cheney’s dick

you do not know we’re dying in the streets.

We have corruption, pain and violence

that is beyond belief.

We have no food to feed our babies

and our wounds won’t heal.

Yo! you who lives in pretty cities,

You who don’t even begin to know the meaning of lack,

can you cut an aching brother a slack?