Applying for a job

Fit your entire life into a word document.
Don't mention faith or anything like that.
There are rules, you know.
Print it on embossed cardstock
and place your life into a mailbox.

Forget about your life.
Climb onto a pile of dirt.
Drink lemonade through a straw
and stare up at the clouds
tracing them with your finger.
Cough when seeds get stuck
halfway up.
Don't cough when the wind picks up
and churns dust from a gravel driveway.

When you're done,
go inside and mop the linoleum
until you can see the shape of lightbulbs
in each tile. Scrub the sink with a
ball of steel wool, pick the filth
and soggy corn from its ends.
Drop them into the garbage disposal.
Oops, you turned on the switch
and didn't hear the phone ring.