Explore "His Favorite Role" by Ring Lardner on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
You could be president as well as not, / Since all you'd have to do is think you were, / With that imagination that you've got; / Or multimillionaire if you prefer, / Or you could be some famous football star, / Or Tyrus Cobb, admired by ev'ry fan; / Instead of that, you tell me that you are / The Garbage Man.
Why pick him out, when you can take your choice?
Is his so charming, nice, and sweet a role / That acting it should make you to rejoice / And be a source of comfort to your soul?
Is there some hidden happiness that he / Uncovers in his march from can to can / That you above all else should want to be / The Garbage Man?