I Remember This One Time I Went to Speak with My Boss in the Cooler Because We Needed to Give Out Gift Cards Because We Did Such a Shit Job Getting Chicken out on Time and She Said

“What else could I give to those fucking vultures, my job?”
and she was fired that same week

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Kaiden Ciongoli is the winner of the Gerald Stern Prize in Poetry, he works at Walmart while pursuing a degree in Communications with a minor in Creative and Professional writing. Born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, Kaiden works to celebrate Western Pennslyvania poets in his podcast “Po-Eds: Mini Editorials of Poetry You Should Know.”