[Willwhatley]

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!

[Jun8]

Good old Larkin! This reminds me of Toads, which, of course is well-known. However, he also has a poem called Toads Revisited, which, depending on your reading, may be heartbreaking in its conformism.

[qohen]

> Good old Larkin! Mmm...no.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Nobody!_Who_are_you%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

[Jun8]

Thanks for pointing that out :-) The reference and the post reminded me of Larkin's two poems, but maybe I didn't phrase the mental hyperlink clearly.

But more importantly, thanks for at least checking the reference out in the parent rather than giving it a downvote, as some here are apt to do.

I guess some think that any poetry relevance would be irrelevant in HN. To those I would reply:

  It is difficult

  to get the news from poems

		yet men die miserably every day

				for lack

  of what is found there.

(from Asphodel, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15541).