Purely Personal

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11f285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Arial" ><B>Berton Braley Cyber Museum</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Berton Braley Cyber Museum"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>     </B></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="11ed2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="news_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="News"><U>News</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="biography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography"><U>Biography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="works.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Works"><U>Works</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bibliography.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bibliography"><U>Bibliography</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="correspondence.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Correspondence"><U>Correspondence</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="library.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Library"><U>Library</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="meeting_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Meeting place"><U>Meeting place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="guestbook.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Guestbook"><U>Guestbook</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="market.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Market"><U>Market</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="links.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links "><U>Links </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="search.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Search"><U>Search</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id400.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Foundation"><U>About Foundation</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="about_museum.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Museum"><U>About Museum</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Purely Personal</I><I>                                                                                                   </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am as I am</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>With the faults that beset me,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And which I should cure,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>But my nature won't let me.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And if you're as you are</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>As I am as I am,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>You will get me.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am as I am.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Though I can rearrange me</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>In some minor details,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I am helpless to change me</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>From the basic Myself.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And I've got what I've got</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>`Cause I am what I am </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And I'm not what I'm not.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>I am as I am</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And I do as I do</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>As I am, being me,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And not you, being you.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Perhaps I would be </B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And do better by far,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>If I weren't as I am</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And I were as you are,</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>But I'm bound to be me</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>And, without any sham,</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Make the best of whatever</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>I am - as I am!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Published in: </I><A HREF="the_saturday_evening_post.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Saturday Evening Post"><U><I>The Saturday Evening Post </I></U></A><I>magazine - January 21, 1950</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>© 2000-2006, Berton Braley Cyber Museum. </I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="copyright.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copyright"><U><I>All rights reserved.</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>---</I></div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U><I>Contact Webmaster Peter Leeflang</I></U></A><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:info@bertonbraley.com"><U> </U></A></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>