This work is a Young's modification of a Haiku by Basho that can be transilliterated: Matsushima Ya - A A Matshusima Ya - Matsushima Ya. Matshusima is a small archipelago in northern Japan, Ya is one of the abstract, hieretic words used in Haiku according to complex rules, and A (pronounced Ah) is an aparently universal, spontaneous exclamation used as commonly in contemporary America as it was in 17th century Japan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover was hand colored by Mara. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This piece was published in Rampike Vol.6 No.1. curry includes 5 handwritten Haiku poems by Hood (collaged onto pages) written as varients in House of Cards, Runaway Spoon & form the basis for curry's critical text. In a letter to the Sackners, curry notes that Jirgins (editor Rampike) "fucked it up by typesetting all the poems (including the bp Single letter translation!)(i'd provided him with a photocopy of bp's drawn version), rendering my discussion of Hood's handwriting superfluous..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.