Ego or Ego Sum?

He used terrible grammar,

didn’t he, when he

said ”Before Abraham was, I AM.”

Didn’t he?

They picked up rocks to stone

him but he walked away,
calmly.
Latin: “Ego sum.”
Or just sum because the
ego is understood.

Did Freud know that
when he named it with
Super I and Id?
The wizard lives in Id while
the rest of us are kings of Ego,
picking up our own rocks
to hurl, billions of atomized
egos, a deafening
cacophony of
preoccupation with self.

Ego has no purpose or
plan without I AM, and ego
knows that, of course,
bitterly,
as it knows it must
decrease and let
I AM increase.
Descartes had it wrong;
it should have been
he is therefore I am.

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Photograph: The signs were sent by Nancy Rosback. Used with permission.