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Angela Genusa's The Package Insert of Sorrows is a chapbook filled with recycled language and even a recycled drug insert (in my case, for Restoril). Genusa uses langauge that at times seems pulled from web sites, and at other times, she seems to craft her lines with her own (if it is ever our own) language. So, in one piece, we get:

Fashion the whatever of amphibology from
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home
Other poems sound like this.

A phone was on a desk in front
of him, an ordinary old phone, and package insert
package insert tear his gaze from it, because if it rings
now... if it rings
These lines seems quite different to me, though they both play with questions concerning found langauge and if our language in general is societal rather than personal. The both also play with language as part of the coporate system. Still, as a whole the chapbook seems to be the opposite of corporate langauge, especially since it looks self-published and breaks such language apart before handing it to us.

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