I'm Nobody

[Echoes of the “Nobody” emerging from the Covid-19 outbreak]



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!

By Emily Dickinson