the dangling conversation: i’m nobody in neglect

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too? 

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And you read your Emily Dickinson

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They leave us so to the way we took

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Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

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And I my Robert Frost

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As two in whom they were proved mistaken,

That we sit sometimes in the wayside nook,

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How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –

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And we note our place with book markers

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With mischievous, vagrant, seraphic look,

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To tell one’s name – the livelong June —
To an admiring Bog!

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That measure what we’ve lost

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And try if we cannot feel forsaken.

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Featuring Emily Dickinson’s I’m Nobody!, Robert Frost’s In Neglect, and Simon & Garfunkel’s The Dangling Conversation