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I'm Nobody! Who Are You? - Emily Dickinson

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

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 day
To an admiring bog!

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