Uploaded on October 21, 2011

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!

—Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson


10.21.2023: Nobody and someone special, like all of us.