Emily Dickinson Is Not Borges

EMILY DICKINSON IS NOT BORGES Emily Dickinson is not Borges And Borges is not Kafka And Kafka is not Dickens And no one is Shakespeare- Each one is only one self Except for those who are many selves And those who are many selves Do not know Who they themselves are- Lear is not Falstaff And Falstaff is not Hamlet And Hamlet is not Shakespeare And Shakespeare is not Donne- No one is anyone but themselves And even those who are really ‘someone' Are not all the others who also are- And we who are nothing at all? What are we? We are not nothing at all. We are not great And no one will remember our names But we are still here now Reading Borges and Dickenson and Kafka and Shakespeare And wondering how and why There are those in a world of their own With names of their own They themselves will never completely know.