I’m Nobody

9 Jul 2026 | Our Father | 0 comments

I’m Nobody! Who are you?

Are you – Nobody – too?

Then there’s a pair of us

Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

 

How dreary – to be – Somebody!

How public – like a Frog –

To tell one’s name – the livelong June –

To an admiring Bog!

 

Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, The Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1988.

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