JOHANNA AITCHISON
Miss Dust’s Career Advice
If you want to leave your job, get a job worth leaving. Leave your leaving party with a spring
in your shoes & a swagger in your song, thinking, now that was a party worth leaving!
If you want a job worth leaving, pretend not to notice the red goldfish, who’s chewed off the tail
of the white goldfish with the googly eyes & the golf ball bulge in its abdomen.
The white goldfish is floating dead in the fish tank next to the reception desk.
If you want a job worth goldfish, walk up to the receptionist, hand in your brain,
& sit back down on the sunset couch.
Firm-men take your brain to rooms lit with moons.
Firm-men prod your brain with newspaper words.
“What will your brain be in five years time?” they ask.
“Don’t worry about your brain!” you say to your empty head.
(The Firm-men are taking years with your brain).
You’re doing all of this to get a better job.
Remind yourself of this.