Sunday, September 17, 2017

The Gazebo Blogger

~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!*~

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886


bog
[bäɡ, bôɡ]
NOUN
  1. wet muddy ground too soft to support a heavy body:
    "the island is a wilderness of bog" ·
    synonyms: marsh · swamp · muskeg · mire · quagmire · morass ·
  2. a bathroom.
VERB
  1. cause (a vehicle, person, or animal) to become stuck in mud or wet ground:
    "the car became bogged down on the beach road"

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