Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Identity

Jim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few that are still hanging on in there. For ten years he ran the literary blog "The Truth About Lies" but now lives quietly in Scotland with his wife and (increasingly) next door’s cat.

Identity

…determines which types of changes a person can undergo without ceasing to exist – Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy

You start at the door.
Or more often walking up the drive.
Getting into character.
The you you’ll be for the next while.

Persona, not character.
Or maybe “role” would work better.
One of the above then.
Actually, what about “version,” eh?

But not the real me, no.
No, he’s… well, he’s just for special.
She said, “Be yourself.
Just be yourself and they’ll love you.”

So easy to say. So easy.







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