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They were choosing who could hang around after the end of the world. They asked one guy why he should be allowed to hang around. The man replied that he has a farmer and that he knew the ways of the soil and how to qrow food. They said he as OK and they asked the next guy the same question. He told the, "I am a doctor, I know about the body and the illnesses it is heir to." They accepted him. The next one put to the same inquiry. She said, "I am a woman. You can't qet on without me." That was true. When the next person was confronted he responded with a grin and a chuckle. "I am a salesman. I know exactly what you want and I would only be too happy to show you." They put him with the shock victims to cool him off. Another man was then asked why he should be allowed to hang around after the end of the world. He was a priest, but he had the key to the WC and they thought that was good enough and kept him. OK, it went on and on like this with just a pretty seal group of genuinely indispensables being collected and then they came to the last guy. They asked him, 'Any reason why you should be allowed to hang around?" This man looked at them carefully and then said, "I am a poet. What I know are words." They said, "What?" "I am simply a poet' he replied. They decided to accept him. So everybody got into doing what they were good at doing. Soon there was food agrowing and bodies being mended. The woman was keeping up her share and the priest has sharing his keep. But the poet just sat there all day. Finally, they came up to him and confronted him. "Why do you not seem to produce in a measure equal to the rest of us?" The poet brooded a moment and then said, "The world just ended. I don't think this is a good time for poetry." So they put him with the salesman in hopes they could teach each other a thing or two. When they looked in on them later they found the salesman deeply funked, but the poet was all smiles. When addressed, the salesman would only groan, "The world has ended, the world has ended. " The poet, though, bubbied happily. "It may have ended, but the impact of truth is undimished!"