Journal
Eleven Sentences for Employee of the Year May 2, 2016
by Gregory Laynor
Eleven Sentences for Employee of the Year
How old were you when you were eleven years old?
Employee of the Year, you are now three years old.
How old were you when you were three years old?
I was in an audience watching Employee of the Year.
How old were you when you had your first performance evaluation?
What do you see, on a scale of 1-10, in your favorite song or shadow?
On a scale of 1-10, what's your worst memory?
On a scale of 1-10, what's your most expensive memory?
What's your newest memory?
Somebody was telling me that the Employee of the Year performers used to drink ginger ale but now drink seltzer.
Gregory Laynor teaches art and language at University of Washington Bothell and has been writing The Making of Intermedia: John Cage to Yoko Ono, 1952 to 1972. His singing of Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans appears on UbuWeb.