Six of our beautiful writers have been nominated for the 2013 Pushcart prize. Over the next week, we will feature each of them, along with the nominated work.
Today’s nominee is Rob Daniels, a creative writing major at Cleveland State University. His major focus for writing is in both poetry and playwrighting. He is a long term vegetarian, avid bike rider, and out and proud comic book nerd.
County Employee
Enough with paper trail chains. Enough…five years
treading through shit without much luck. Five years-
early mornings- this is life?- quick coffee driving
end to end of this crooked county for a buck. Five years
spent, elbow deep, latex connections, other peoples’ time.
Ceil blue waders, fade with the murk and the muck. Five years,
mourning in afternoons, and in the night- permanently
raw- hearing Mr. Daniels!!! In tuts and clucks. Five years
in windowless pink and green basements, casting now shadows,
drifting- smile face façade- left to dodge and duck. If I’ve years
robbed from me- you do not think of me- mornings,
maybe mourning shouldn’t be why I wake up. Five years?
pea river journal 
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