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Jackie Kay
somebody else
somebody else
somebody else
If I was not myself, I would be somebody else.But actually I am somebody else.
I have been somebody else all my life.
It’s no laughing matter going about the place
all the time being somebody else:
people mistake you; you mistake yourself
© 1998, Jackie Kay
From: Off Colour
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne
From: Off Colour
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne
Jackie Kay
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1962)
Jackie Kay is a poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and raised in Glasgow. However short, Jackie Kay’s poem ‘Someone Else’ adequately summarizes the central theme of her poetry and much of her other work.
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somebody else
If I was not myself, I would be somebody else.But actually I am somebody else.
I have been somebody else all my life.
It’s no laughing matter going about the place
all the time being somebody else:
people mistake you; you mistake yourself
From: Off Colour
somebody else
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