Londis Carpenter

Copyright © 2005

I’m not a rocket scientist

But I can surely do

A little math to reconcile

Things that surely are true .

Today I wrote a formula

So everyone may see

My most important concept—

My great discovery.

When M means Man

And J is Job

And T equates to Time

I can express in symbols

(Just like Albert Einstein)

The simplest equation

That most folks I believe

Can use to make life happy

And easier to live.

And so M=JT

Expressed in prose or rhyme

Means man is only meant to do

Just one thing at a time.

And thus to bosses everywhere

I dedicate my rhyme—

A man is only meant to do

Just one thing at a time.