'Spam in My Inbox' by Donal Mahoney

​Spam in My Inbox
 
Fancy spam emails
I don’t mind nor the ones
cobbled in broken English
 
from someone who says
he’s with a bank overseas
and is holding money for me
 
if I will send a small token
to show my good faith.
No, the spam emails
 
that bother me
are the ones that use
the names of people
 
I know well, like my daughter.
Those emails I’d like to answer.
We were close before she died.
 
 
Donal Mahoney