The Application
At the base of the form
there is a blank for free-form exposition.
The attached question posed,
the one that cannot be answered with check marks,
is: why would you be exemplary at this job?
The reality is that I do not need
to be good at this job,
I simply have to appear to be a more desirable
potential employee than all the other
street-urchins, losers, and malcontents
that have wandered in to join this lottery.
I write: my skill set
matches your undocumented need.
And every day
I learn more, grow and transform.
Maybe it is my penmanship this exercise judges.
Ken Poyner, Blue Collar Review