Poem for Money I

Fill out applications by candlelight late at night with wine and Schubert.	Write a story in the form of a detailed application for a part-time community college teaching position.
Fill out applications outdoors on beautiful days.	Make an oil painting eleven feet high and eight ½ feet wide which is a detailed reproduction of an application.
Fill out the application over and over until it’s perfect.	Compose a piano piece by splicing together measures out of pieces teachers made you practice at some stage in your piano education in the order that you had to learn them.
If the interviewer ends a question on a middle C, what pitch should your answer end on?	Set an application to music.
Make a separate visit to a community college to deliver each document required with the application.	Reproduce the rectangles and proportions of an application onto a piece of watercolor paper.
Keep track of and recycle good answers to recurring application questions.	Try to make a copy of an application, word for word, by using words and letters cut out of books and magazines.
Try to apply for five jobs in one hour, whether they are jobs you want or not.	Walk to as many places as possible, collecting applications. The next day, return to them all and drop off the applications. Whether they are jobs you want or not.

1997