 Each pair of consecutive facing pages is to be read as a single panel; the text flows back and forth across the two pages, along irregular lines.The sentence that names the poem is split into three parts, printed in large capital letters on panels 1, 6, and 8.A second textual thread in smaller capitals apparently begins on the right side of panel 1, "QUAND MÊME LANCÉ DANS DES CIRCONSTANCES ÉTERNELLES DU FOND D'UN NAUFRAGE" ("Even when thrown into eternal circumstances from the bottom of a shipwreck").