The poem facing the conventional poem by Karl Young is an illustration by thalia of a man's head composed of seven different symbols standing for "goodbye, farewell, so long, go on, go out, auf wedersen and adios." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book, with typography apparently derived from rubberstamped letters, is based on fragments of early Latin writing. Some of the texts were originally found on bottles, boundary markers, etc. The rest was written by Latin writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by Karl Young. This exhibition commemorates the first nuclear holocaust, August 6, 1945 and a call for banning nuclear weapons everywhere. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

With the exception of the choruses, the vocabulary for this poem is based upon the English equivalents of words and phrases in Jean-Paul Satre, " Les Mouches and Les jeux sont faits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The poem consists of printed text, which reads in part, "Given the nature of oxygen through the biosphere over time, you have probably breathed some of the same air as at least one of the following people: Moses, Buddha, Sappho, Jesus...and the first to experience unselfish love." Young's written poem of the title reads from right to left and bottom to top. It is positioned below the printed text and taken from 2300 year old Latin text. Young concludes "You may have shared a breath with its author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.