treading that familiar

but uncertain path

coloured cells flickering

through a depressing sequence

credentials converted to data,

identity whisked away

expected in new environment

and reduced again to number

instructions issued, bland corridors

industrious indistinctiveness surrounds

assume common characteristics

plastic identifies organism

inked permissions rapid fire

procedure unceremoniously commenced

a workstation anonymous object

attended briefly from higher authority

stock consolation and dismissed

anonymity shed hopefully

departure unrecorded and then

back on the familiar but

uncertain path