The Indispensable Man

Sometime when you're feeling important

Sometime when your ego 's in bloom

Sometime when you take it for granted

You're the best qualified in the room

Sometime when you feel that your going

Would leave an unfillable hole

Just follow these simple instructions

And see how they humble your soul 

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Take a bucket and fill it with water

Put your hand in it up to the wrist

Pull it out and the hole that's remaining

Is a measure of how much you'll be missed

You can splash all you wish when you enter

You may stir up the water galore

But stop, and you'll find that in no time

It looks quite the same as before

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The moral of this quaint example

Is to do just the best that you can

Be proud of yourself but remember

There's no indispensable man

Saxon Kessinger  ( 1959 )