On Monday, October 17, 2011, Israel Lewis Schneider (1924-2011) -- Silver Spring poet and mechanical engineer -- passed away. I did not learn of this death until yesterday -- when my colleague, Sarah Glaz, let me know that an e-mail to him had bounced back and I went online searching for him.
It has been my pleasure to get to know "Lew" (who published poetry under the name, Israel Lewis) at local poetry readings where we connected over our common interest in poetry-with-mathematics. Lew's poem, "I Find My Faith in the Flatness of Space," appeared in the anthology Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (edited by Glaz and me) and his poem for two voices, "Cantor: Not Eddie," appeared here in this blog on 24 July 2010. Shortly after that July posting, Lew sent another poem for my review. To celebrate the life of this kind, funny, and very talented man, I offer here that poem -- with its playful examination of mathematical and other identities -- "Who Steals My Trash . . . ":
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