/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11024388]

whoa...

[Anonymous No.11024392]

First

[Anonymous No.11024400]

No
NO

[Anonymous No.11024406]

>>11024388
i cri evrytiem

[Anonymous No.11024408]

Why can't you be like this, /lit/? why must you put others down in pursuit of your own success? be like rupi. She doesn't even want to be successful! she does it so that she can save other people and celebrate disadvantaged folks.

[Anonymous No.11024412]

>>11024408
Is this an actual poem or photoshop?

I’ve read her poems and never seen one that makes her look so clearly like a shitty person.

[Anonymous No.11024464]

>>11024412
somebody attribute their own banal, vapid poetry to rupi kaur and propagate it over the Internet

[Anonymous No.11024493]

Thanks

[Anonymous No.11024713]

>>11024464
Rev up photoshop

I love everyone
Including myself
And that’s okay

[Anonymous No.11024763]

really makes you think

[Anonymous No.11024793]

>>11024388

they used to say
I am woman hear me roar
but now they say
I am human
hear me
please

-rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.11024800]

it would be spiteful
to put a jellyfish
in a trifle

-rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.11024802]

this is now,
A Rupi thread
do your best
to imitate
Shit.

[Anonymous No.11024803]

>>11024388
this is one of the fake ones right?

[Anonymous No.11024812]

[Anonymous No.11024822]

>>11024388

[Anonymous No.11024826]

>>11024408
>folks
every time

[Anonymous No.11024838]

>>11024822
this is heresy of the highest order

[Anonymous No.11024846]

>>11024822
THE ONLY GIRL I EVERRRRRR LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED

[Anonymous No.11024886]

>>11024464
People think I am stupid
They do not know my mind
They don't know my thoughts
I am like
A book
Only beautiful when read
By someone with the right mindset
My cover
is obsolete

-Rupi Kaur basically

[Anonymous No.11024889]

>>11024793
This is unironically better than anything published within Milk and Honey

[Anonymous No.11024891]

A sentence
broken into
fragments
line breaks
are merely
facades

[Anonymous No.11024898]

My vagina
like nana's kitchen sink
full of yesterdays refuse
and the clitter clatter
of guests of all types
never ceases
to remind me of
h o m e

[Anonymous No.11024900]

Ladies
im single
I don't want to be
Alone

Fellows
I'm smart
i only want to be
Known

[Anonymous No.11024902]

>>11024763
I literally can’t tell if this is real or not. The soap isn’t helping.

[Anonymous No.11024916]

in the end
the love you take
is equal to
the love you make

[Anonymous No.11024923]

>>11024793
this is actually kinda good
is it a real rupi?

[Anonymous No.11025005]

>>11024923
>this is good
>is it Rupi Kaur
You can answer this yourself

[Anonymous No.11025007]

>>11025005
There's like 2 Rupi Kaur poems I/ve read and thought, "Y'know this is at least better than Bukowski"

[Anonymous No.11025013]

>>11024822
SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS

[Anonymous No.11025023]

>>11024822
Their best song, to be desu

[Anonymous No.11025025]

>>11024902
It's a hitler quote

[Anonymous No.11025044]

>>11025007
Truly, the forebearer of all Facebook minion memes

[Anonymous No.11025151]

My
Bush
Chafes
When I buy
New underwear
Periodically

[Anonymous No.11025249]

>>11025044

God Bukowski blows.

The beginning of the end

[Anonymous No.11025443]

with arms wide
open
welcome to
this place
I'll show you
Everything
-Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.11025448]

after losing
70lbs
Susan Boyle is
unbelievably
gorgeous
-Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.11025458]

>>11025249
he would agree with you

[Anonymous No.11025478]

poo
pee
sorry for wasting your time
but at least this shit
actually rhymes
-rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.11025479]

its like an idea youd write down
and then
flesh out
later

[Anonymous No.11025574]

we must confess
in memes
what we lost
as dreams

[Anonymous No.11025610]

[Anonymous No.11025614]

>>11024713
...and that's a good thing!

[Anonymous No.11025726]

it starts with
one thing
i dont know why
it doesnt even matter
how hard you try

[Anonymous No.11025733]

>>11024902
u fucking retard

[Anonymous No.11025762]

[Anonymous No.11025775]

>>11024822
eeeeeyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEAAAAAAAAAAEEEEESSS

[Anonymous No.11025790]

>>11024388
>because the draining
>is my job

-rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.11026370]

I'm not saying that her messages aren't empowering to the right audience, or timely, or that her success isn't impressive, or that Instagram wasn't idiotic for deleting her menstrual blood photo. I am saying that Rupi Kaur's poetry is flat-out terrible, identical in every way to any 16 year-old's overwrought "profound spoken word" drivel, her drawings are little better, and the fact that she's sold over a million copies and become #1 on the New York Times bestseller list doesn't change the fact that any decent pop song has better words. One's subject matter doesn't exempt one's skill from criticism. But I sadly agree that she is the perfect poet for our times: her poems are mostly indiscernible from the millions of cheesy affirmations clogging our social media, except that she carefully signs her name to each cloying profundity: brief, shallow, so utterly tailored to her target audience that they amount to flattery, even in the sense that most of the audience could do as well themselves. This is Rumi for the Instagram age. So why should this bother anyone? Well, by way of comparison, Dionne Brand’s 1990 volume of poetry, No Language Is Neutral, sold around 6,000 copies, a remarkable number, even with a Governor General’s Award nomination. Rupi Kaur's first collection of poems has sold over a million copies so far. In fact, more people bought 'milk and honey' than bought all other poetry books by all other Canadian poets, living or dead, in that year.

[Anonymous No.11026486]

>>11026370
You hit it out of the park with the pop song comment

There's an albatross around your neck
All the things you've said
And the things you've done
Can you carry it with no regrets
Can you stand the person you've become

Your albatross, let it go, let it go
Your albatross shoot it down, shoot it down
When you just can't shake
The heavy weight of living

This is better than any postmodern poetry, which is sad, because it's not very good.

[Anonymous No.11026487]

'hey guys last night i slept with this girl drunkenly, and when I woke up in her bed I was alone and there was a note on the bedside table that said, "I had to go stay for as long as you want. -soph". She left to go fuck my friend who she had ditched to sleep with me not an hour before. I took her laptop and came to a restaurant to look at 4chan and drink coffee and pabst and whiskey in the bathroom. Rupi sux.

[Anonymous No.11026502]

>>11024388
i always lose to these, yet i insist on lurking them in class
lost in the first one

[Anonymous No.11026512]

WHAT MATTERS MOST
IS THE FUCKING SPONDEE

TWO STRESSED SYLLABLES IN SEQUENCE

"GOD DAMN"
"SLAP STICK"
"TAKE TIME"
"FUCK YOU"

But wait, there's more. Yesterday I was getting drunk and filling up a notebook with nothing but spondees, and I think I wrote the most beautiful phrase I've ever pieced together in my years of studying and writing poetry.

BEHOLD:

THE DOUBLE SPONDEE

"Three Wheel Push Cart"

[Anonymous No.11026521]

>>11024408
Is there a line in Lolita that describes Lo as Milk and Honey? Every time I google it I just get these fucking poems, but I'm pretty sure I'm right.

[Anonymous No.11026527]

>>11026521

That sounds pretty familiar. I don't know though.

[Anonymous No.11026529]

today i
almost could


not get
out of
the bed

woman strong
ruka piur

[Anonymous No.11026701]

>>11026487
Are we all just gonna ignore this post? This is fucking hilarious

[Anonymous No.11026733]

repostan

[Anonymous No.11026757]

>>11024388
>dubs
>these are the
>watermarks of God
>check them

>-- water mcmarkoneachfuckingpoemwhatisthis

[Anonymous No.11026801]

>>11026370
>the perfect poet for our times
>indiscernible from cheesy affirmations clogging social media
>brief, shallow, so utterly tailored to her target audience that they amount to flattery, even in the sense that most of the audience could do as well themselves.
It's devilishly ingenious. After the menstrual blood, odds on each of these poems being ex post facto occult initiation of texts used in spirit cooking? lol To the point that it being a DARPA pet project into influencing the affluent consumer base of this type of inspirational quote instagram meme verse can't be ruled out.

>>11026487
>I took her laptop and came to a restaurant to look at 4chan and drink coffee and pabst and whiskey in the bathroom. Rupi sux.
Post nudes to /b/, then get an std test brah

[Anonymous No.11027126]

>>11024898

>my vagina
>clitter clatter

[Anonymous No.11027131]

>>11024388
my man
laughing

my man
laughing
because he know

[Anonymous No.11027377]

>>11024898
underrated

[Anonymous No.11027737]

it’s fucken nice out
who’s tryna chill
an smoke some loud
u fell me?
i got loud
dm me or hit my line

- rapi kaur

[Anonymous No.11027747]

>>11024763
true

[Anonymous No.11027751]

get off mine
i got that juice
noo style
cut your brain stem as my
combat boots
grind your head
to the cadence of this death stompin’ mu-
sick as fuck contagion
wagin’ war with all you knew
bitch

-rapi kaur

[Anonymous No.11027754]

>>11024822
KEK

[Anonymous No.11027756]

SOMEONE should call to attention that her poetry sounds EXACTLY like Trump's speech.

[Anonymous No.11027758]

>>11026487
Good job

[Anonymous No.11027780]

My ex gf is in my macro class that I’m in right now and she used to read these poems out loud while in the bathroom

“Poetry is meant to be heard, not read” she would say

[Anonymous No.11027783]

>>11024388
>I'm tired of my current serious bf give me a new guy who makes me wet

[Anonymous No.11027815]

>>11027783
Heck I’ll do it

[Anonymous No.11027843]

versace
versace
medusa head
on me
like
i'm 'luminati

--rupi kaur

[Anonymous No.11027887]

he came in
my mouth
then it was my turn
to receive
but Bartleby told me
he would prefer not to

-rapi kaur

[Anonymous No.11028021]

>>11027737
out here
in amish
smoking big
doinks
in amish

big old
doinks

gang

-Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.11028118]

hey do you have a boyfriend
if not let’s get drinks tonight
i’m only in town tonight
for the Preds game
and sorta need a
place to crash
after, haha

-rapey kum

[Anonymous No.11028144]

>>11024408
>randomly
>using line
>breaks
>and only
>typing in
>lowercase
This angers me to no end.

[Anonymous No.11028147]

>>11024886
see? wasnt that fun?

[Anonymous No.11028174]

>>11024916
You're gonna carry that weight

[Anonymous No.11028199]

No
Stop
It is over
Abort

[Anonymous No.11028204]

>>11024464

[Anonymous No.11028216]

>>11025574
This is good

[Anonymous No.11028232]

>>11028144
this angers me
to no
end

[Anonymous No.11028261]

>>11025610

[Anonymous No.11028311]

>>11025574
This is way too acceptable for a Kapur poem