One loose sheet incorporates image of an advertisement for "Other Books By W.H. Mallock," the author of "A Human Document." Adair is a Scottish author, film critic and journalist. He won the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for his book A Void, which is a translation of the French book La Disparition by Georges Perec. He currently lives in London, England. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This collage profile of a stylized human body alludes to multiple physical malfunctions from "bald" to "cough" to "corns" clipped from newspaper ads. The figure is standing on a base which states "Under capitalism...medicine is a commodity and a business. Disease is a commodity of capitalism. Under capitalism, the businesses and institions of capitalism need disease as merchandise to do business with, to make money, to sell medicine. Fidel Castro - January 8, 1969." This poem was published in Mayer's "earmouth" 1972 and in Delo, 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

There is a photographic reproduction of this work in the exhibition catalogue, "Sound Texts ? Concrete Poetry Visual Texts," page 210. The paper labels were added at a later time when the work was exhibited in a small art gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.