I'm Nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson

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!


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