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I’m Nobody! Who are you? (a poem by Emily Dickinson)

08 Monday May 2017

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(Note: In a world that empowers mere celebrity, self-effacement becomes an act of rebellion.)

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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!

–Emily Dickinson

dilemma (a quote from Sarah Vowell)

20 Monday Jun 2016

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“While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them.” –Sarah Vowell

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