I GOT A JOB AS A FICTION WRITER

I got a job as a fiction writer at a university.  It was a surprise to me because I write only poems.  But I was desperate and said I write one paragraph novels, this is the 21st century, time moves fast.  When they said, "And what are your ambitions, what are your plans," I said I would like to write one-paragraph epics, but I do not know if the time for the epic will ever come again.  I want to write a sustainable literature, a literature to be cradled in the ear and memory.  A paperless literature, if you like.  "And what's to distinguish your novels from short stories," one of the interview board asked.  Intensity, I said.  I do write short stories too but there the resolution is higher.  There is less expansivity, less flow.  "Oh," said the interview board member.  "And what's to distinguish your short stories from ... from, er ...."  From poetry?  Good question.  I'm glad you asked that.  I would never write poetry.