Vocation

For six months I dealt Baccarat in a casino. 

For six months I played Brahms in a mall. 

For six months I arranged museum dioramas;

my hands were too small for the Paleolithic

and when they reassigned me to lichens, I quit. 

I type ninety-one words per minute, all of them 

Help. Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.

I speak Russian, Latin, a smattering of Tlingit. 

I can balance seven dinner plates on my arm.

All I want to do