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I'm Nobody! Who are you?

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!

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Public domain · Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

Carry these words