A Brief Turn Around the Corkscrew of Death, and Back Again

I no longer exist, I
Have been defeated, fraught
In the pleasures of non-
Being, I am become

A name -- with epithets!
Epithets and a rounded line,
Multivariant, vagrant, insufferable,
Much enduring epithets, the tissue
And the structure of my being. I

Am -- who? Much quizzical
Leibowitz, Christian
Alex the son of God's
Right hand and Hell,
Defender of men,
Lover of wit, exclusive
Seductress of time and seduced
By death's own face: Alex
Benyamean Leibowitz, right?