/lit/ - Literature

>the one
>who did nothing
>wrong was
>hitler
>- rupi kaur

>i do things like
>get in a taxi
>and say
>'the library
>and
>'step on it'

>dudes like to talk about
>how their dicks are big
>and veiny and stiff
>but us girls need to
>step up our game
>and drink our period
>the blood by our bodies made

>>10066423
Kinda like this more than I should. Not so Kaur-esque it seems.

We all know her poetry is bad. But how did she get it published? Does she have a large social media following? (So the publisher is guaranteed a shekel return from her devout following?)

my yellow fever
is racist
but the more i fuck
that tight
yellow pussy
the more i enjoy
my racism

>just another snowy day
>the snow is like a memory
>of that time he said
>let's go sledding

the only
thing you have to do
is press enter in
all the wrong places

>>10066379

None. She fucking sucks and anyone who likes her should kill themselves.

>>10066501
Yes.

She posted that kind of tidbits in instagram, where she gathered a huge following of insufferable cunts. They used said instagram following as reason to publish her.

>>10066520
She has some good imitators though.

I want to
jizz
on
JK Rowling's face

>>10066521
>mfw local B&N has an endcap full of copies of her shitty book
>it's been full for months now
>never seen one copy be sold

>>10066428
Got 'em

>>10066419
>the soupopois
>it is
> not enough
>for two

>>10066419
>and do drugs
>while swinging
>my tennis racket

>they dont think
>it be like it is
>but it do

i was Rupi
but now
i am poopi

>>10066379
>everything
>tells you
>the way they
>leave

there is time
enough for you
not me
or these wounds
unhealed

>>10066379
But that's actually good.

>>10066783
27 posts
too late
to be a
cont
rarian

crawling
in my skin
these wounds
they will not heal

Making fun of someone is just promoting him or her to a wider audience. Even doing so in the confines of /lit/, one of the least popular boards, gives her views, google hits. Soon people will start making fun of her on reddit, then tumblr, then facebook and then in 30 years some limp-wristed college profesor will write a book about the "brave and bohemic instapoets" and how they had to over-come racist and sexist critics.

smile with the rising sun
three little birds
each by my doorstep
singing sweet songs
and a rhythm both pure and whole

>>10066970
>if you really think
>that shitposting on /lit/
>will promote an author
>i suggest that you see
>what's inside of you
>what's inside of me
>and at last you'll agree
>that you're as wrong as it can be

>>10067027
Thats actually good though

>>10066556
what the fuck is he cooking

>enjambment
>was
>a
>mistake

hello i am
a boy
and this
is my toy

hello
my name is
enoby
darkness dementia
raven way
and i have
long ebony black streaks
that's how I got my name
if you are a prep
then fuck off

>>10066428
Kek

wubba
l u b b a
dubdub
i am
pickle rick
i turned myself int
o
a
pickle,
he turned me into a woman

Do not look for healing
At the feet of those
Who broke you

This one is aight, eh?

R E A L L Y makes you think

>I tried so hard
>and got so far
>but in the end
>it doesn't even matter

>>10067603
I actually kind of like it. Why Anne Frank though?

My girlfriend proposed to me in a note in one of her books, which is sitting beside me in bed right now, actually.

who are you?
the cab driver
said
i said
i'm rupi kaur
the poet
and he replied
sorry, don't know you
so i tweeted his picture
and bled
from my cunt
on his car

>>10068102
It's from a neutral milk song called holland 1945
>>10067603
fuck off don't slap that bitches name on something good

>>what you did
>>the smell of grease and cinnamon
>>and physical agony mixed with shame
>>you left me on the train to bergen belson
>>after fucking me with a Christmas ham
>>you really are a fucking man

>>10066407
Kek

>>10066379
>The flame of
>heart
>is nothing after
>it extinguishes

>>10066379
>It's easy
>to sound
>profound
>if instead
>of the spacebar
>you
>hit
>enter

>>10066379
>the day
>he kills you
>you realize
>he did nothing but
>born your
>strong female self

I daydream
sometimes
I sleep
too


2.
I lay awake
at night
thinking
of nothing
and you

3.
I am
forgetful
but your
face
I never
forget

4.
your voice
reminds me
of
birds
and nightmares

>>10066379

I love Red Bull
because Monster
makes me sleepy
more expensive

>>10068566
soar
is my
throat
trembling
are my
desires

6.
the sight
of sunrise
enchants me
your eyes
even more

>>10066433
lmao

>>10066379
>My giant
>meatclamps
>will be so
>powerful
>and so feminine
>they will
>consume the world

>>10068582
I confessed
and little
did I
confess.

snow falls
on the plum-blossoms
my heart is as peaceful
as a muslim-free world

I dived into
You
Did not consider
The cost

You left me
When I needed
You
The most

All alone just
Me
When everything
Was lost

nigger
nigger
nigger
nigger

nigger
nigger
nigger
nigger

nigger
nigger
nigger
nigger

she puts
all her pain
onto
the page

enjambment is
cruise control
for
cool

that'll
be
$19.95

pages of
the book
turn without
a reader.

Without you
I am lost
In a city
I used to
Know

---

You are a star
Beautiful light
Blinding me
Shining so
Bright

---

With you in my
Arms
I don't fear
Death
You are
Spring's
Sweet sweet
Breath

---

I am six
Beers deep
Kinda miss my ex
Writing Rupi
"poems"
Smoking
Cigarettes

I'm brown
no-one
can call you
racist
if you
buy
my
book

people say
they wouldn't
wipe their ass
with my poems

neither would I
I'm a poo

Why is lit
full of nazis
my fist is itching
let it fly
ooga-booga buy my booka

Without you
I am lost
In a city
I used to
Know

---

You are a star
Beautiful light
Blinding me
Shining so
Bright

---

With you in my
Arms
I don't fear
Death
You are
Spring's
Sweet sweet
Breath

---

I am six
Beers deep
Kinda miss my ex
Writing Rupi
"poems"
Smoking
Cigarettes

writing
a poem

is like
taking a shit

I like doing them both
outside

In my Father's house
are many rooms

none of them however
are toilets

mirror
mirror
on the wall

wait

that's not a mirror

it's the Bristol stool chart

>>10068102
if you aren't mêming, you have a great 39 minutes ahead of you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wabrnt1MVVQ

i can't believe
you suckers
buy this shit

i'm laughing
all the way
to
the
bank

>>10069166
Bravo!

Rupi has a poem where she says that abusive dads teach girls to love the kind of guys that would abuse them. I know that because my ex-gf, who was beat by her step dad, sent me the poem. I felt awful, like she was insinuating that I was somehow abusing her without knowing it.

I write down
any old shit
with some
line breaks
and call it
a poem

I
Shit
my pants
I must change

I love you
as much
as I love
not shitting
in toilets

Teenage Women
And feminists
Enjoy my bland
aphorisms and
pithy statements
paired with
minimialstic
drawings
because their
simple mind
likes
simple kinds
of lit

>>10069705
This is the kind of shit why I love genuinely /lit/ chicks. It makes you feel like a literary man, the heighest point a pseud can reach.

>ask ex what's her favorite poem
>it's one that describes sorrow as a mailman
>sorrow knocks on the lyrical I's door
>"are you depressed?"
>"hahaha no Anon haha what's your favorite poem?"
>mine is about a man who comes to terms with death and has no fear as he holds his lover
>"Anon are YOU depressed?"
>"no hahaha"
>"ok haha"

We almost killed each other by our depression combined. We both wanted the other to notice and do something. Fun times.

/blog/ but it's a Rupi thread no values lost

buying an
overpriced book
from a woman
of color
is the best way
to resist Trump

(my publisher
totally didn't
tell me
to say that)

self indulgence
is not just
for the talented

I draw pictures
because
I have to
fill the page
somehow

this thread
needs to
be archived
It's getting
boring

if i knew one jew
i would have a book
to
- rupi kaur

A Rupi thread
Dies
Another one
Is born
An endless cycle.

>>10069772
rupi threads are relatively pretty good though. Honestly, one of the few things still around that'd fit in with old /lit/

>>10069954
rupi threads are
relatively
pretty good
one of the few things
that'd fit
with old /lit/

>>10069357
Not into country. He's also got a weird voice

>>10068592
10/10, captures her style and lyricism perfectly

every month
i dribble some blood
onto the page
my used tampons
are the essence
of woman
the universe
is breathing

>>10070011
Low quality bait

Dream
a dream
but
it wasn't
a dream

it was
a nightmare
cold
and wet...
...
...
...
...................

>>10070011
ok you had me going there for a second I thought someone unironically had never heard that album

i make
a lot
of money
from you
gullible teens
but the
publishing jew
makes more

eating me alive
devouring
is the urge
to talk to her
just
utter
a simple hello
but then
it all ends

i press enter
when i write prose
so that
people think my thoughts
are artistic

The past ...
It sometimes so present
That while it last
May as well think fast
Fast
Fffast
Slow

when he called
me fat
he meant i
was too big for
his
world
to
hold

>>10069705
She's giving you a hint

i'm deep
i'm really deep
honest
please like me
on instagram

>>10073979
>please like me
>on instagram
This is actually too good for rupi

>>10067328
Chicken liver I think

>>10074087
>>10067328
It says kidney right in the fucking thing

>>10066530
For a split second I thought these were the lyrics to Nights in White Satin

>>10074101
yh / but it's
chikin

roses are red
violets are blue
i will never
poo in the loo

>>10067328
It's Ulysses you insufferable fucks

you could not do
the basics
so i
did the math

>>10074108
that's a good track though

>>10066501
She self published Milk and Honey. It got very famous. A publishing company picked it up for a second edition release. Now she is releasing/has released a second book.

>>10066379
This one's actually quite sweet

>>10073740
This could be published through a pseudonym - Sarah Nau Booyka, a half-gypsy immigrant from Ukraine that happens to be a big woman(plus sizE model)

Ads
Ads everywhere
Come dine
Cold drinks
Sweets
Five star rating
We do not stop
He never stops

>>10067603
this is the best one in the thread, I honestly thought it was real until I realized why it sounded so familiar and why it actually sounded kinda good

did you leave
the window open
in puerto rico
the rain got in

>>10066379

Stop posting about this fucking trash "poet"

how do i into poetry? and what is wrong with rupi kaur?

>>10075409
There is nothing wrong with Rup, she's /lit/'s most discussed poet

>>10068495
bretty
good
desu

>>10069772
I don't fully understand your post but I appreciate you posting and hope you do more in the future. Hopefully we all get at least 1 lit gf one day :)

i just want—
for once—
to eat an egg
on a sandwich
and not have it
called breakfast

>>10075584
Damn near every day I think of another food with eggs we don't call breakfast. John Green will be the death of me.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane
I was the smudge of ashen fluff--and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky,
And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass
Hang all the furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of snow
Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal land

From Nabokovs Pale Fire

>>10075822
There actually are pieces of that poem I like, but this is not one.

>>10069705
It's a signal you should have choked her out

>>10067506
Really WOAH'd my jimmies there guy.

dirty dishes
left in the sink
who will clean this
not me

pee pee
poo poo

I woke up
did some stuff
then went to bed
being a woman
is hard

>>10066970
>then in 30 years some limp-wristed college profesor will write a book about the "brave and bohemic instapoets" and how they had to over-come racist and sexist critics.

You're assuming that said professors in 30 years won't be thrown off rooftops by Salafists, killed by "youth" gangbangers, or pack raped by a post-nuclear apocalypse cannibal biker gang.

You call that shit dank?
Son ya flow stank
My verse kicks ass
From Broadway to Burbank

>>10066521

how'd she gather the huge following though? did the gray lady and other media do a piece on her and tell everyone to follow her early on in her instagram career?

God fucking bless Kaur for her poetry; it's revitalized /lit/.

>>10066379
nothing left
but it's still here
his shrill cry reverberates
echo slowly withering
among the walls constricting
me
reeeeeeeeeeeeee

I sometimes wonder
am i a traitor
pooing in loo
like westerners do
oh why oh why
can i not pass by
a public loo
without shuddering too
the shame! the shame
betraying my race
using a toilet
a ceramic pallet
for my poo
my gastric goo
digested stew
expelled in the
too-hygenic mouth of a loo
but all the time
i long for the sweet
outdoors to receive my poo
for what ever grew
from the bowl of a loo?

Am I a brainlet for pausing at each new line so these already shit poems also sound awkward in my head?

Brainlet here. Can somebody explain this to me? I always thought it had to rhyme to be poetry. This just seems like someone wrote a sentence and smashed the enter key a few times while doing so. Why is this poetry?

>>10077440
Blame Eliot

Niggas in this thread THINK they throwing shade at my girl but really just showing that she's a bettee writer than any y'all punk ass bitches and jus4laffs here's some OC better than anyone here:

The life he led went nowhere and he didn't mind
So many hours
Days
Weeks
Dancing
Dreaming
In his selfish mind
Still, he was kind

>>10066407
Made me lol irl. Congrats.

depression
my
obsession
help

>>10077440
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry

Drunk as fuck. Excuse the lazy editing.

>>10066379

abony williams has some good poetry i hear

>>10078419

>>10078423

>>10066379

new jumper
I bought reads
'Get off my back'
what this means is
I'm insecure as fuck

Inspired by a true story

there is
a turd
in my book - just staring
but the
turd
is a poem
the turd
is me

>>10066379
>i wanted a baby
>my belly expanding
>since you left me baby
>i ate a lot

A screaming comes
across the sky
It has happened
before but there is nothing
to compare it to now;
they are in love
fuck the war.

>>10066433
cheeky

Like you
An adventurer
I used to be
But I took
An arrow
In the knee

>>10077585
Why you gotta write about me like that

how is
babby formed
how girl
get pragnent

i'm crying
no one cares
i'm crying
forever alone

>>10078419
hahaha that's the YA writer from the other thread

i saw god
travel back in time
and shoot me
in the back of the head
while i was standing
on your front porch

>>10079184
Ultimo bowl cut of the century

>>10066379
>in line at whole foods
>the cashiers are somali
>wow that's so progressive
>i should wish them a happy diwali

>>10066419
oh shit what is this referencing?

wet and glistening
it
reflects what has always seen
the two of us
but one apart
the glistening eye

>>10079244
>>the cashiers are somali
>>wow that's so progressive
why is this so funny

>>10079269
Because it exposes the superficial hypocrisy of PC virtue signalling.

Men may have
Arms wider than
My head
But when they
Piss urine
We women piss
Blood

tyrone's warm cum
this is how i fight
white supremacy

Not Rupi style, but I made this just for her.

BROWN EYE GIRL
Brown eye obscured by black hair
How I long to know its stare
Pull apart the fleshy mounds
to ripping velcro sounds
The pupil dilates in the light
Around it I seal my lips tight
Into my mouth and out my nose her essence passes
I'm high on her reeking digestion gasses
>brap

>>10066379

>Chad
>in the morning
>Chad
>in the evening
>Emancipated I am
>Bereft of soul

nothing worth
finding is
easily found
try as
we might
that-
was supposed to sound
very profound
it probably sounds
trite

>>10079248
John Green quote

He left
I cried
I slept
I put cucumbers
In my cleft

>>10066379
when will people give up on this 'poetry' meme?

>>10079248
Memefinite Meme, I got meme'd hard and am actually reading it

space
is literally
the most stupid
thing
there is

Her tits
bursting out
made me
shoot
so many ropes

In a plantation
Somewhere in the nation
Big black bulls grazing
And fraternity hazing

College celebration
Black and white diamonds
Fuck segregation

>>10066379
It's about the relationship between a teenage girl and a robot build to mimic one. It's a pretty interesting look at how a robot might form attachments of their own without ever going the easy route of magically granting her human emotions.