Some Epigrams

Song Cycle by Paul Siskind

1. Simultaneously [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

Simultaneously, five thousand miles apart
 [ ... ]

Text Authorship:

by David Ignatow (1914 - 1997), "Simultaneously", copyright ©

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2. Poem

Language: English

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Text Authorship:

by Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967), copyright ©

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3. I'm nobody [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
They'd [banish us]¹, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell [your]² name the livelong [day]³
To an admiring bog!

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title, appears in Poems by Emily Dickinson, first published 1891

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¹ Bacon, G. Coates: "advertise"
² Bacon, G. Coates: "one's"
³ Bacon, G. Coates: "June"

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4. A man said to the universe [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English

A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

Text Authorship:

by Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900), no title, appears in War Is Kind and Other Lines, no. 21, first published 1899

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Total word count: 127