Customer dear, please do consider
That for each salesman there is a sitter,
Whose performance for you it'll matter
Once you have signed and started to patter.
'Cause it's his job to fix all the batter.
For behind all the scenes
However or not it all seems
There exists a breed of technician
Whose purpose is more than patrician.
For it is the systems analyst
(truly a rare kind of specialist)
On whom falls the task -
(he really must mask)
To prove that the salesman -
(regardless if woman)
Is really the god -
(and not just a clod)
He claims to have been.
(and not some has-been.)
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This I discovered early on
When I was often put upon
To provide all those fools
With impossible tools.
Yet today I do thank them,
Though it seemed I could hang them.
It was rarely real matter,
More often mind over banter.
It developed real knowledge,
And provided true college.