By Emily Dickinson
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!
Rob Ostrom | OL02 | Fall 2021
License
© 2025 Introduction to Poetry Writing
Theme by Anders Noren — Up ↑
I love “How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell one’s name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!” Working in the beauty/fashion/entertainment industry for 10 years I found myself getting wrapped up in wanting to become “somebody”. Over the years I learned how much of a curse it can truly be hahaha