Member since August 16, 2012 | 13,048 Readings |

Shannon Barber

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

Recent Work

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

Shannon Barber

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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

Shannon Barber

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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…

Dear Whiteness

Shannon Barber

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I want to say / Officially / I won't be / Assimilating / To the degree / Recommended / To survive. / I regret / To inform / …

Thematically Black

Shannon Barber

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I am / Thematically Black. / I know. / I'll give you a minute. / You okay? / I know / I am / Thematically Black / Like / Hot sweet…

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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…

A Warm Fire, but Make it Feelings

Ayla-Monic

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It snowed again today, / left the earth encrusted and my body shivering. / It’s cold in here, and I think about // bundling up, / heading out,…

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