would be that of being paid to talk to plants
that, profoundly ignored, feel rather lonely,
particularly the plants sold by supermarkets
where they provide limp 'window dressing'
in an environment that encourages customers
to be so indifferent to themselves as they shop,
that the atmosphere beggars disbelief.
My success as an applicant would be proved
by how much in any interview for the post
my interviewer chose me via overtly ignoring me.
