Emily Dickinson Predicts the Web (1861)

An Admiring Bog

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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Alan D. Corré
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