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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
Jackie  Kay

Jackie Kay

(Verenigd Koninkrijk, 1962)

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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

somebody else

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