January 21, 2009 by Rufus McCain at 3:28 am

I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us–don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

–Emily Dickinson

(Tip of the hat to Almostgotit)

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Theocoid says

January 21, 2009 at 8:45 pm

Wrote an Emily Dickinson parody once, supposedly a serious academic paper on her long-lost brother. He wasn’t as memorable.

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Theocoid says

January 22, 2009 at 1:17 am

Of course, you might disagree. I’ve posted some samples of his work on my blog.

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Rufus McCain says

January 23, 2009 at 6:57 am

Great idea. You could make it into one of those historical-poetical what-if novels.

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