Member since August 16, 2012 | 13,976 Readings |

Shannon Barber

I'm a writer from Seattle. I like to read lovely words. Also hello.

Recent Work

Allergen

Shannon Barber

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I don’t love you like this Not like A creature I want To hold Precious And tight. I love you like This Like how I love flowers And hate How they…

Taste Me

Shannon Barber

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Don’t think of me / If / My name be bitter. / Don’t speak of me / If / The words are sand / Don’t see me / If / My face be haunting / Think of me…

A Diss Track to my Body

Shannon Barber

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This- / Trifling ass / Hurting ass / Malfunctioning ass / Limping ass / No sleeping ass / Twitching ass / Constipated ass / Wack ass / Bitch ass /…

Corpus: 1

Shannon Barber

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Mine was the body / The victim / The evil / Of being / Of thighs / That rub / That jiggle / That hide the / Evilest / Eye. / Theirs / …

Junkie

Shannon Barber

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I Jones like / I'm dope sick / Sweating / Shitting / Like / Nothing is really / Cause I can't get right / Cause ain't / …

On My 41st Birthday

Shannon Barber

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I am tired / Of / A body / That don't give a shit / Literally / If I got things to do. / And this brain that / Sometimes / Sometimes…

Secrets

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I want to know you / The way / I know the secrets / Inside my own mouth. / I want to know you / The way / I know the ache / In my chest / …

How Black

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How Black can you be? / The question was serious / Posed from the superior position / Of normalcy / But who cares? / Right? / Skin color…

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Evening at Wyatt Detention Facility,…

Amy Pickworth

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Sparrows occasionally flutter by, / negotiating the miles of barbed wire / that encircle the air and the building. / In one room the lights…

To Be Healed

Dena Rash Guzman

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sometimes, under the rain is light / no common cloud can defeat / // we drink beer with the old boys / while deer shift gears / // in the…

The Button

Kevin Sampsell

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A poof inside my chest / I press on my left nipple like / A button / It is five in the morning / I want nothing more than blankets / To be…

The Feeling

Ayla-Monic

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The feeling where your heart is being squeezed. / The feeling where your heart is pressing against the confines of your rib cage. / The feeling…

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