3 August 1999 - I’m Something Else

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 1999 : 3 August 1999

I’m Something Else. And you?
Are you Alternative too?
Let’s shout it to the world!
We’ll start a Trend, you know.

I’m leery of the Mainstream.
They’re stupid, like the frog
Who turned to peer at Ellis Isle
And ended up in Prague.

clue:

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 June -
To an admiring Bog!

— Emily Dickinson