by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
The 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!
from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart
Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman
Little, Brown & Co, 2012
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