Who Steals My Trash....

Ergonomic efficiency:
tucked down inside the knee-hole of my desk
a wastebasket with a machine
to slit into ribbons the evidence
of my Identity.
Grinding in whining lamentation
it cries for me.

Who am I?-- I ich je ani yo
Ego Id Superego
My computer stashes my stuff
anoints me "Main Identity."
There are no other Identities before me.

I, instrument of unchangingness:
as in arithmetic, I = One = 1

X times 1 = X.

I the Identity, as in:

M operation I = M

I am Alef, the All. En and Sof--
before the Beginning, after the End.

No thief can steal me.

...........................................Israel Lewis

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