JOHN KELSEY [NOMINATED BY RITA ACKERMANN]
These readymade lines were taken from spam emails. Randomly pasted into the bodies of messages advertising cheap drugs for erectile dysfunction and depression, they could be the junk DNA of a possible post-literature. Reassembled in a new form here, they begin to resemble poetry.
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I would like to thank you for the excceellent seirvice that youu hhave given mmee.
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I am iprsesed and willl refer your cmapny to oters.
I hope II spell tthis right but MMcho Grarcis!
Ione Golick
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Again thank you so very muuch.
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John Kelsey is a founding member of Bernadette Corporation and co-Director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art.