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16914059 No.16914059[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Is this an allegory for transgenderism?

>> No.16914063

I cannot read a Rupi Kaur poem without unironically seething. Fuck you.

>> No.16914070

>>16914059
self improvement chuds should love this

>> No.16914098

if someone told you this was from zhuangzhi you would be lapping it up

>> No.16914121

>>16914098
No, if someone told me it was from Zhuangzi I would correct them.

>> No.16914176

>>16914059
The symbol of the butterfly is transformation. Our Rupi wants to transform too, from caterpillar or chrysillis to pupa and from thence, to beauty.

>> No.16915372
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>>16914059
Probably not exclusively or intentionally, but you could apply it to gender transition if you wanted to.

>> No.16915375

>>16914059
>>16914063
Wait, is this what passes for poetry now?

>> No.16915419

>>16914059
No, it's an exposition of process philosophy. Read Whitehead

>> No.16915444

>>16914098
I would also tell them it isn't a fucking poem.

>> No.16915449

>>16914121
Mega based

>> No.16915457

>>16914059
It's a metaphor for how you cannot simply start tripfagging and become so beloved and loathed as Butterfly

>> No.16915581

>>16914176
^^

>> No.16915998

>>16914059
whatever ends this thread the fastest

>> No.16917153

>>16914059
Ask « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »

>> No.16917157
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you do not just wake up and become the « Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ »
growth is a process - rupi kaur

Obvious transgender allegory