I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--nobody--too? Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell--they'd advertize--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody--
How public--like a Frog--
To tell one's name--the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!


Poem by Emily Dickinson
Poem No. 288, "I'm Nobody"
ca. 1861


Although Miss Dickinson used only dashes for punctuation, a few liberties were taken to enliven her poem here.