Songs About Life and Brighter Things Yet XVI
There's no one that I'd like to be One half so much as I or me. And though I sup on meager bran, I'd change the menu, not the man.
Samuel Hoffenstein
There's no one that I'd like to be One half so much as I or me. And though I sup on meager bran, I'd change the menu, not the man.
Four short lines sketch a person at peace with himself. The speaker says there’s no one he would rather be—not even half as much—than his own “I or me.” Even though he eats plain, humble food, he wouldn’t swap his identity; he would only improve what life serves him.
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