Saturday, December 1, 2007

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us—don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

1 comment:

dan said...

from 101 Great American Poems