It is said,

that the name you are assigned at birth,

by loving parents

or by the invisible masks of state

are only there for the price

of administration, that but for the benefit

of paperwork, those in charge would call

out a series of random numbers,

bar codes, binary relics

and your parents

especially when in the blackest of moods,

somehow remember your whole name

and not just the one of endearment

when you make them a cup of tea.