I'm Nobody! Who are you?

by Emily Dickinson (1891) — a poem card from Justes Mots

A conspiratorial whisper between two nobodies — and a wink at all the tiresome somebodies croaking their names.

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.
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Themes: friendship