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I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one's name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

—Emily Dickinson
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I haven't research it properly, but it seems there is more than one version of this profound, original poem. Here goes the one without the a*** word:

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 one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!

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Were this poem written today, would the poet have used the word 'Blogosphere' instead of 'Bog'? I wonder...

If it wasn't for the poem, I would have offered a title of "A Loud Speaker" (not "A Loudspeaker" :D ) for the fractal.

Excellent pair (the poem and the fractal), so it's a tie for me. :D
Congratulations & thanks for both!