Creative Writing: De Tasseled Corn

For four straight hot and sweaty summers, I had DE tasseled corn. For the people who may not know of detassling imagine walking miles and miles plucking little tassels from a corn stocks. From 6 am to 2 pm or if you were good, you probably weren’t getting off till 3 or 4 sometimes even 5 when the newbies wanted to quit and get back on the bus but, let’s just say my brother Dawaun and I was the best. Waking up at 5 am every morning was a struggle. Dawaun would come in my room
“Jawaun we’re going to be late again if you don’t wake up” ok ok I’m up” and really all I wanted to do was go back to sleep because I already knew what was in stored for me today. So when we get on the bus we go to our favorite seat in the back of the bus and next thing …show more content…
But good thing the hot sun will dry me off later in the day and that’ll just make me wish I was still a little wet. Once the field dries up that’s when the conversations start up, because who wants to talk to somebody while your soaked neck to toe. The conversations keep your mind off the fact once you get out of a row you just have to get an another one and they always started off with my brother asking me. “what are you going to do with your money?”
“I’m probably getting a ps4 and some clothes for school. Man I can’t wait till this is over”.
“I Know bruh same here. Owe when we get that check imma go crazy.”
The big boss Steve aka Boss Man always looked out for us and the other special pickers with all kinds of extra treats because when push comes to shove we’re the guys the boss comes to. But on some of the special missions the boss comes to Dawaun and I first probably because we we’re giants compared to most of the pickers in