Catherine Tufariello

Spamtoum

For Camshaft Cohen, Earline Gee,
Cook Bullocks, Busby Salazar,
Spigot P. Toxicity
and others who know who they are.

The Last Wish of a Dying Man
Get an iPod nano Free!
Cheap Viagra.  Tryptophan.
Why are you ignoring me?

Get an iPod nano Free!
Do you wish for lager Breasts?
Why are you ignoring me?
I need to get this off my chest

Do you wish for lager Breasts?
They’re beautiful looking rich chiffon
I need to get this off my chest
Urgent message from Amazon

They’re beautiful looking rich chiffon
This could be your lucy day!
Urgent message from Amazon
Cut your bills the Christian way

This could be your lucy day!
This thing here could change your life
Cut your bills the Christian way
Hide cable watching from your Wife

This thing here could change your life
Trojans everywhere slay them all
Hide cable watching from your Wife
ha ha your penis is so small

Trojans everywhere slay them all
My sylvan swim go private snog
ha ha your penis is so small
you fat ass stochastic frog

my sylvan swim go private snog
“You’ve Been Sent an Insta-Kiss!”
you fat ass stochastic frog
Get rid of messages like this

“You’ve Been Sent an Insta-Kiss!”
Cheap Viagra.  Tryptophan.
Get rid of messages like this
The Last Wish of a Dying Man

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Catherine Tufariello's first full-length collection, Keeping My Name (Texas Tech UP, 2004), was a Booklist Editor’s Choice selection for 2004, a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and the winner of the 2006 Poets’ Prize. She lives with her husband and their daughter in Valparaiso, Indiana, where she is associate director for communications at the Project on Civic Reflection at Valparaiso University.