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Everybody Is Somebody's Nobody

by Charlie Morgan

Somebody is nobody to everybody.

Nobody is somebody to everybody.

Everybody is nobody to somebody.

Nobody is everybody to somebody.

Everybody is somebody to nobody.


Therefore: EVERY NOBODY IS SOMEBODY.

03/28/2005

Posted on 03/28/2005
Copyright © 2024 Charlie Morgan

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Rula Shin on 03/28/05 at 10:38 PM

I love it! How very creative despite the calculating logic and strict form. You certainly worked it out didn't you!? "Somebody is nobody to everybody" - no family no friends, dies alone. "Nobody is somebody to everybody" - for how is it possible for any one body to know every other body in existence? "Everybody is nobody to somebody" - the recluse who lives inside himself alone and doesn't consider anyone else. "Nobody is everybody to somebody" - I'm not sure I agree with this (if I am understanding it correctly) for there is bound to be one who is ALL to another. "Everybody is somebody to nobody." - a clever way of repeating the second line. The conclusion: Yes as you well show, "EVERY NOBODY IS SOMEBODY" indeed! But I am afraid that this is but a mere way of speaking cleverly, a representation of a beautiful concept though not an accurate representation of WHY. For I do feel pity for the "Somebody [who] is nobody to everybody", for though in this poem and in this line he is both 'somebody' and 'nobody', he yet remains untouched. And though this does not make him singularly a "nobody", his being "somebody" has not anything to do with being nobody to all the rest....great thinking piece you have here :-)

Posted by Alison McKenzie on 04/01/05 at 12:46 AM

I tried this once in chemistry class, it exploded all over my brand new Farah Fawcett do. Hehe.

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