{"id":1717,"date":"2009-06-26T00:50:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T06:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:18:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T14:18:23","slug":"poetry-friday-invisible-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blaine.org\/sevenimpossiblethings\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Friday: (invisible girl)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Great War by Rene MagritteFunny thing happened this week: I (along with MANY other people, including everyone I work with) was informed that, due to one person’s negligence and another person’s wickedness, our sensitive personal data has been released into the ether. Like, the kind of data you steal someone’s identity with. On our employer’s covering-their-asses advice, I immediately placed one of those fraud alert thingys on my credit info and checked out my credit report. So far, so good. But it’s still very scary; and as I keep hearing from other people, if anything does<\/em> happen with my credit, the damage could be permanent. Evil-data-thieves may get to change identities like they’re changing underwear, but as a law-abiding citizen I’m apparently stuck with mine for life.<\/p>\n

This is certainly the most concrete reason I’ve had for wishing that weren’t true, but it’s not the first time I’ve wanted to be able to start all over and wake up in a different life. Wouldn’t it be great to be an unknown quantity, a blank slate? Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to escape from myself for a while, to fly under everyone’s radar — including my own — and be really truly free<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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Do you think that’s something like what Emily Dickinson<\/strong><\/a> was feeling when she wrote this? If anyone knew about the perks of anonymity, and the desire to escape a pigeonholed life, I’d say it was her. Here’s #204<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
\nAre you \u2013 Nobody \u2013 too?
\nThen there’s a pair of us?
\nDon’t tell! they’d advertise \u2013 you know!<\/p>\n

How dreary \u2013 to be \u2013 Somebody!
\nHow public \u2013 like a Frog \u2013
\nTo tell one’s name \u2013 the livelong June \u2013
\nTo an admiring Bog!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Today’s Poetry Friday Round-up is being hosted by the lovely lady who started the whole thing in the first place: Kelly Herold, at her new-ish blog Crossover<\/strong><\/a>. Thanks, Kelly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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