A SELF-INTERESTED PLEA

the divided self ... its solution ... suppress the id and at the end sacrifice the id ... someone has to die ... let it be the id ... that cowardly thing you did when you were fifteen ... that was the id ... that drunken despicable thing you did when you were twenty-five ... that was the id ... the first great betrayal you were thirty-five ... that was the id ... your scholarly wantonness ... that was twenty-five years later ... that was the id ... each time the sentence was death ... each time it was commuted ... still the ego is grabbing at shadows ... still the judgment is too late ... we're holding the fort down as we were told ... we're keeping the faith ... but they're bombing caen and bringing dead mothers home in a wheelbarrow ... that was the id ... they're interrogating the queen ... the queen will lose her head ... that's the id ... all the stuff you've taken ... all the loot you've stored ... put it to the id's account ... let the id pay the bill ... so says the ego ... let the ego command ... it never did before ... let it do so now