Emily, who are you? Will you join the wind and me on the mountains?

[i_yodel_poetryy]

I read this poem today (at bottom of post). It stuns me. The poet, Emily Dickinson, stuns me

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Who am I? Who are YOU?

[_emilydickinson]

Who am I?

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.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Oh - and get lost, I'm not copying you, you pretentious idiot. I hope you fall off the mountain.

[joriegraham]

Jorie, you ass, Emily Dickinson is not copying you. It's that bastard Emerson you want to go after, seeing as he gave her all her ideas in the first place. I am completely positive about this. Now Emerson, that guy was definitely stealing from us. And Thoreau. I'll go beat him up sometime, if he's not off communing with turtles or something.