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I'm nothing! I know you!
Are you nothing too?
There's my companion!
Don't tell! It's best only we know.

How some do go on!
With words and flashes
making everyone blind.
Their names augmented -
it's a little demented!

Etienne Charilaou

Monday, December 14, 2020

Topic(s) of this poem: identity,truth

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I decided to do a different take on Emily Dickinson's poem below:

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!

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Dr Antony Theodore 14 December 2020

I'm nothing! I know you! Are you nothing too? There's my companion! Don't tell! It's best only we know. Nothingness and being and search for identitiy. tony

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