I Keep Meaning to Update Mine

My Last Résumé:

When I was a troubadour

When I was an astronaut

When I was a pirate

You should have seen my closet

You would have loved my shoes.

Kindly consider my application

Even though your position is filled.

This is my stash of snow globes

This is my favorite whip

This is a picture of me with a macaw

This is a song I almost could sing.

When I was a freight train

When I was a satellite

When I was a campfire

You should have seen the starburst

You should have tasted my tomato.

I feel sorry for you I’m unqualified

This is my finest tube of toothpaste

This is when I rode like the raj on a yak

This is the gasoline this is the match.

When I was Hegel’s dialectic

When I was something Rothko forgot

When I was moonlight paving the street

You should have seen the roiling shore

You should have heard the swarm of bees.

Joseph Di Prisco.