Help Wanted: Poet

What a job description might look like for a poet (not in this reality, but perhaps another?)

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For a long time, the world has been looking for a classic poet, someone who could capture the spirit of the age and create poems for all kinds of events, from little kids getting their brown belts, to the launch of a rocket to the moon.  

We here at the Pegasus Company, are looking for someone who can hit the ground running with verses, tropes, similes and metaphors that will enrich the lives of people across the globe in ways that everyone (no matter their educational background) can understand and relate to. 

Poet.  Responsibilities include:

--Ability to see into the lives of every passer-by
and instantly recall their face;

--Ability to look beyond reality and gaze upon
the mysterious wonderments interacting within
as in Flammarion’s famous lithograph of Ezekiel 
peering out of this dimension and beholding
the universal multicolored wheels within wheels;

--Must know the names of flowers, trees,
forms of wood and animals;

--Must be able to time machine his/her memory
to any point in the past and recall all the sights, 
sounds and emotions saturating said memory;

--Must be able to blend in with whatever environment
he/she finds himself in and extract as much meaning 
from it as possible.

--Must be well versed in the best poetry from ancient times 
to the present.

--Must be able and willing to occupy him/herself
with meaningful activity not related to pushing
paper or making $ for greedy heartless
perverted bastards bent on world domination.

--Must have a working vocabulary of at least
100,000 words;

--Must know all the mythologies of the world, 
and be able to use them in similes or metaphors
on an ad hoc basis;

--Must be adept at charting the course of the 
stars, and how they affect the destinies of human
beings from a micro to macroscopic level;

-- Other activities may include kneeling on the ground
and raising one’s arms to the sky on a daily basis, 
like sunbeams on ancient Egyptian carvings;
watching the wind take an invisible finger and 
twirl leaves into an autumn barn dance, or 
walking to your day job and continue walking 
past it on a street leading up to the sky…

Please note this is a full-time, 24/7 position, whether working from home, away from home, at your day job, on a bus/train, or wherever you are.  

For inquiries, please send a thought mail to the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and some event will present itself to you at the right place and time, somewhat on the level of Dali’s vision of the Perpignan Station, standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon, or watching a sparrow hop along the railroad tracks.  

You will report to the CEO with poetic results and observations which will be secretly disseminated throughout the world and dripped out silently over time, tracking long-term results using our proprietary metapsychographical software.

Salary commensurate upon experience in this and other past lives.