onsdag 25. februar 2009

Emily Dickinson



260 (288)

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!

Ferguson, Margaret (ed.): The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition, Norton, New York, 2005

1 kommentar:

Anne Johnsrud sa...

Det var et hyggelig gjensyn!