5.21.2021

didn't want to be anybody

In the play Amy didn't want to be 
anybody; so she managed the curtain. 
Sharon wanted to be Amy. But Sam 
wouldn't let anybody be anybody else— 
he said it was wrong. "All right," Steve said, 
"I'll be me, but I don't like it." 
So Amy was Amy, and we didn't have the play. 
And Sharon cried. 
 
[William Stafford {1914-1993} 'First Grade', from Ask Me]

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