Check out Wilbur's "The Disappearing Alphabet," which goes through the ABC's speculating what would happen if each letter didn't exist. (I discovered this, by the way, after I wrote a similar but of course inferior children's book about what would happen if each of the numbers 0 to 10 went missing).
Here's Wilbur's X:
The letter X will never disappear.
The more you cross it out, the more it's here.
But if it vanished, treasure maps would not
Have anything with which to mark the spot,
And treasure isles would ring with the despair
Of puzzled pirates digging everywhere.
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And here's a short one:
At breakfast time, the useful letter T
Preserves us all from eating SHREDDED WHEA.
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