Spann is a 24-year-old senior majoring in creative writing

Rhapsody in Black

lustrous dreadlock

vines rope nappy strands sprout beauty

cocoa and olive oil dripping brown honey heated coils crackle

air popping under the hot comb her scalp breathes

queen nzinga should have never changed her name

ana angola bantu knots pop from roots

hoops of flowing long new growth beats to bass

makes them turn twists waving like senegalese night tides crashing on the shore

whipping skin long kinky is exotic

theyre not trippin if they dont see or get it

dark pomegranate seeds of self-love hear hypocrisy in connotation of beauty

microphone top afros funk their way to bouncy indignation

for sisterlocks shock the mans glock top hot

Shade reads the faded neon sign

muddy waters grooves all night leaving 27 kids to party

for one night Too-Too watches her

smiles for correctly reading the sign

she will be happy to know Too-Too escaped Issaquena County

blues toes fall from wooden shack

crop grows cotton as short as Shades tiny  black echo

it aint Harlem but itll do

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See-Cupped Titties

I grab my titties because their swollen with milk.

I grab my titties when I’m horny.

I grab my titties when I see a sexy man walking on the beach.

I grab my titties so I can strut in Amber Rose’s slut walk.

I grab my titties because I have chest pains.

I grab my titties when I want to fuck.

I grab my titties to make them flex like Terry Crew’s pecks.

I grab my titties because I’m a slut.

I grab my titties when I’m drunk.

I grab my titties to wipe the sweat from underneath them.

I grab my titties because I “want” you to rape me.

I grab my titties to get money twirling on a pole.

I grab my titties to massage them.

I grab my titties so one day I can marry Kanye West.

I grab my titties so you can suck my areolas.

I grab my titties for scraps of food.

I grab my titties when I’m watching porn.

I grab my titties when I’m bored.

I grab my titties because daddy told me to.

I grab my titties for some cheap plastic beads.

I grab my titties because I smoked some weed.

I grab my titties so you can titty fuck me.

I grab my titties to check for cancer.

I grab my titties to feed my baby.

I grab my titties for #freethenipple.

I grab my titties because I can,

while you flex your dick, because you’re a man.