ITT: We pretend to be Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.8916645]

It seems wrong to bash her for writing shit without proving that we can at least be as shitty as her. I'll start:

why do we have to settle
for some ugly body and ugly soul
we deserve
someone with a body as hard as
our own lives

[Anonymous No.8916665]

I cannot wait until she's slightly older, and not a "young attractive female poet" anymore, just a "female poet," and desperately wondering why all her attention evaporated

I DON'T UNDERSTAND??? WHAT BOUT ME CHANGED???? I STILL WRITE BLANK VERSE ABOUT HOW MEN LOOKING AT ME IS IRRITATING WHEN I'M ON MY PERIOD????? AREN'T I STILL RILKE????????????????????????

[Anonymous No.8916669]

love people no matter their skin
their face, which will grow old
love can beat hate
don't be like trump

a little weight
is nothing to worry about
a lot of weight
is nothing to hate someone for
what matters is inside

your privilege is nice
fair skin, a bulge in the pants
but to give it up
is so much greater

you need a vacation
they need a meal
rich men who don't give
won't find peace inside

[Anonymous No.8916673]

>>8916645
If you don't
make life easy
for grils
you're a bad daddy

[Anonymous No.8916677]

>>8916665
>>8916669
Okay this is so fucking hilarious she literally takes photos about her fucking period just lmao you stupid piece of shit there is more value to the thousands of pieces of furry porn on the internet then your fucking stupid photos.

I don't even fucking like poetry and i know shes terrible.

[Anonymous No.8916678]

when i was younger they told me to be a princess
when i was younger they told me to be fair

i dont want to be a princess
society is not fair

when i was younger
they lied to me

[Anonymous No.8916681]

>>8916677
yikes

[Anonymous No.8916689]

Rupi Kaur is a conte
mporary Canadian feminist
poet, writer and
spoken word artist based in Toronto. She is popularly known as an
Instapoet for
the tra
ction she gains online on her
poems on Instagram.

[Anonymous No.8916690]

>>8916677
whyboner.webm

[Anonymous No.8916693]

Brutal thugs
get me wet
thanks dad

[Anonymous No.8916695]

>>8916665
>blank verse

found the pleb

[Anonymous No.8916701]

>>8916645
>>8916669
>>8916678

Someone should attach some stupid line drawing to these and release them on tumblr and intagram

[Anonymous No.8916703]

women are to
the world
what water is
to man

[Anonymous No.8916707]

If you roll down
a hill
you meet an end

If you roll down
a mountain
you bring an avalanche
and still meet
an end.

[Anonymous No.8916710]

I am sitting on the toilet taking

a shit and I couldn't fall asleep. I

have food allergies and something I ate

today has made me break out in hives. So

fucking itchy and antihistamines aren't

working.

[Anonymous No.8916715]

>>8916645
Tumblr needs to remember this poem anyways?

[Anonymous No.8916717]

body hair
is totally natural
if he doesn't like it
you don't
have to like him

[Anonymous No.8916724]

some people think brothels are for weirdos
and maybe we are weird
maybe this music is weird
and the clubs are overrated

[Anonymous No.8916728]

A girl is beauty
She doesn't need
To prove it
To herself
To her friends

The sky is blue
The birds
Don't know it
Because it is
All they see

[Anonymous No.8916730]

a women holds
the power of healing and
growth right at her
breats

[Anonymous No.8916732]

can
anyone
reccomend me
the best
collection of shakespeare's
works?
i'd like one
with a glossary and notes,
but not
excessive
notes.

[Anonymous No.8916733]

>>8916728
This actually seems pretty legit did you steal it off her?

[Anonymous No.8916741]

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens

[Anonymous No.8916742]

the scars on my arms
tell stories
that dead white men
could not dream of

[Anonymous No.8916748]

The act of sex gives
human beings a tremendous
amount of pleasure.
Pleasure they don’t deserve.
No one deserves to
experience so much pleasure,
especially since some
humans get to experience
it while some are denied it.

[Anonymous No.8916752]

>>8916732
i don't know
your
budget
or if it has any notes
or glossary
but this looks
pretty neat
nevertheless
http://biblio.co.uk/book/complete-works-includes-poems-sonnets-shakespeare/d/836390908?aid=frg&utm_source=google&utm_medium=product&utm_campaign=feed-details&gclid=CjwKEAiAkajDBRCRq8Czmdj-yFgSJADikZggTW8rN1xntmpO6AsTNXhqsNRKSxovKRbjQeE6eOPLxxoCXv_w_wcB

[Anonymous No.8916767]

we should create our own rupi kaur. make a twitter account where we post similar shit tier poems and gain followers because our bio says "feminism + sisterhood [emoji]!!!!"

it is probably a lucrative idea

[Anonymous No.8916768]

they flee horrors untold
yet you take that brick
and build that wall
you are comfortable now
-refugees

she has a slim figure
a pretty smile
broad shoulders
and angst inside
-a women

liking people like you
its natural
loving people like you
its the worst thing in the world
-love

i will be strong
bravery is my trait
loud i will speak
deep down i am weak
-women of color

[Anonymous No.8916774]

what
you are reading
right now
is a sentence

[Anonymous No.8916785]

there are no rules
they can't
tell you
what to do
you are
you
be to yourself
true

[Anonymous No.8916787]

>>8916767
I think it should be time for a /lit/-tan, we will use her as the alter ego. Not joking. I really think we should do this, I mean /v/ has their Vivian slut - so why can't we have ours?

What should we call her?
I propose Dolly Bell

[Anonymous No.8916798]

>>8916741
kek

[Anonymous No.8916799]

>>8916787
>Dolly Bell

not ethnic enough

it has to be more intersectional

something like Aadhya Chhabra

[Anonymous No.8916803]

>>8916677
BLEED IN LOO

[Anonymous No.8916804]

>>8916748

[Anonymous No.8916810]

>>8916799
>not ethnic enough

this is true

it would also be fun if part of the name alluded to something more /lit/ aswell

[Anonymous No.8916812]

>>8916787
Dolly Bell sounds to white we need a strong independent women of colour name to show how progressive we are.

I propose Latisha Black: A shy half nigger raised by her white mother but who identifies as black. She lives in an inner city apartment where she is trying to fulfill he dream to become a philosopher.

[Anonymous No.8916815]

>>8916812
I would just like to add Black isn't her actual last name she just chose it because of how proud she is of her identity.

[Anonymous No.8916821]

Luisa J. Borginos

[Anonymous No.8916824]

>>8916810
Daevaki
Fawad
Wadhwani

[Anonymous No.8916832]

>>8916812

I propose keeping your character, but propose the name be 'Fetisha Boniface'

[Anonymous No.8916859]

>>8916767
we should make fake rupi kaur poetry images with Elliot Rodgers quotes in her style of free verse

When a woman has sex with a
beautiful man, she probably
feels like she is in heaven.
But the world isn't supposed to be heaven.
For some humans to actually
be able to feel such heights of heavenly pleasure is
selfish

[Anonymous No.8916865]

>>8916810

you could just make an anagram of rupi kaur

Kira Upur

[Anonymous No.8916868]

When a woman is ready
she opens her wounds the world
for sharp fingers will peer in
and look
at the yeast infection
please send me some cream
it itches; but is beautiful

[Anonymous No.8916869]

>>8916865
too obvious
>>8916859
more like this please

[Anonymous No.8916893]

>>8916733
Can't be. He used caps. Everyone knows pleb-tier feminist blank verse can't have caps.

[Anonymous No.8916906]

just remember
when you hurt
that your pain is more valuable
because
it is yours
and humble

[Anonymous No.8916907]

One need only look
at a woman’s shape
to discover that she is not
intended for either too much mental
or too much
physical
work

[Anonymous No.8916911]

with girls
nature has had in view
what is called
in a dramatic sense
a striking effect

[Anonymous No.8916920]

women
in truth
exist entirely for
the propagation
of the race
and
their destiny
ends here

[Anonymous No.8916921]

beauty
is a knife
to cut girls
to break them down
it's a shell
and no one notices
what's inside

[Anonymous No.8916924]

>>8916869

beautiful women are
what we are confronted with
and divided into
and the remainder ever
is proof of our
incommensurability

[Anonymous No.8916933]

>>8916665
>AREN'T I STILL RILKE????????????????????????
lmao

[Anonymous No.8916954]

>>8916645
check your priviliges, chess
fourteen male pieces longing to capture
the only female one
rape
whilst keeping the great male - the king -
safe
but if you check your prviliges,
check mate

check mate - Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.8916960]

>>8916954

lovely

[Anonymous No.8916969]

all a feminist poet
has to do to sell books
is write sentences about
how girls are strong
and oppressed
by men
and no one will notice
her poems are all the same
and take no effort
at all

[Anonymous No.8916972]

I wish I could hear
your lips spluttering those heavenly
exciting filthy words, see your mouth making dirty sounds
and noises, feel your body wriggling under me, hear and smell the dirty fat
girlish
farts
going pop pop
out of your pretty bare girlish bum
and fuck fuck fuck fuck
my naughty little hot fuckbird's cunt
for ever.

[Anonymous No.8916981]

>>8916677
haha, that's so gross and definitely not something im into

[Anonymous No.8916992]

So what
I love
sex
So what
I am
a slut
So what
I fuck on camera

I am
still smart
I still
have existential
dread
I read
Sartre

Existentialism and Sex, Rupi Grey

[Anonymous No.8916993]

my voice will be heard
until we stop teaching our kids shakespeare
until we stop telling people being healthy is good
until we stop complimenting people we don't know
until we stop telling our kids that god is a white male
until we stop standing in silence facing menspreading
my voice will be heard

my voice will be heard - Rupi Kaur

[Anonymous No.8916997]

he told me to not be
so loud
so angry
so excitable
so
me

he thought be loved
a cloud yet he
was afraid of
storms

[Anonymous No.8917035]

>>8916869
this is kind of what I had in mind, obviously they should be done better so that they don't look like obvious shops.

[Anonymous No.8917081]

>>8916893
Kek'ed that's so fucking true.

[Anonymous No.8917103]

>>8916997
Typo aside, I would be completely unsurprised if I found that in her book.

[Anonymous No.8917114]

two to the
one
and the one
to the three

I like good
pussy
and I like
good tree

[Anonymous No.8917116]

>>8916724
This tugged a strangely genuine emotion from me anon wtf

[Anonymous No.8917117]

>>8917035
this is perfect, totally believable

[Anonymous No.8917120]

So who's gonna compile all of these together and publish it under the title "Cream & Sugar"?

[Anonymous No.8917122]

>>8916645
wtf is this gibberish nonsense, dont quote that tranny again

[Anonymous No.8917130]

>>8917120
>"Cream & Sugar"
LOL

[Anonymous No.8917143]

Fuck the spoken word scene tho.

I played as a drummer in one of their low level competitions. One girl did these pandering type of poems, and easily beat out the competition, many of them people who seemed put genuine effort in.

Also ton of the competition seemed like extremely white rap with no back track. was weird.

[Anonymous No.8917148]

>>8916645
lines written by somebody
for the witless nobodies
put out for everybody
when read by anybody

they realize that

they could be somebody
writing for shallow nobodies
and then everybody
would cease to be amazed by anybody

writing meaningless lines
on instagram
dressed in milk and honey

[Anonymous No.8917151]

>>8917148
>>8917122
Change last line to cream and sugar instead of milk and honey, so you get the useless name drop.

[Anonymous No.8917153]

>>8917120
I think the idea of doing a character assassination with these is hilarious, but it's nothing time won't take care of itself when this lady's moment is gone and she doesn't find an SJW crowd to pander to anymore

[Anonymous No.8917155]

>>8916645
Stop shitting up the board with your butthurt. Why don't you discuss good poets instead of getting butthurt over shit ones.

[Anonymous No.8917156]

>>8917151
meant to reference

>>8917120
instead of >>8917122
whoops.

[Anonymous No.8917160]

>>8916677
Feminism's goal
>Women can prove that they are capable of just the same ACTIVE STRIVING as men!
>We'll show men that their VIRTUE and VIGOUR through LIBERTY is the human condition!
>We'll show men that we don't neeed thm to dote on us, and that we are capable of Bildung and boldly facing the world, just as well as they!

Feminism's result
>my passive excretions are interesting
>my unearned appearance is interesting
>give me free money
>you should care that i'm sad and weak
>i'm weak and i feel bad feelings and it's your fault. look at this picture of my cooter

[Anonymous No.8917180]

>>8916701
>>8916787
>>8916799
>>8916812
>>8916815
>>8916824
>>8916832
>>8916869
>>8917120
Please make it happen, we do not need much just 40 or so "poems", some bullshit doodles and a backstory about a mixed race girl with gender fluidity.
This could be our thing, what is more post-modern than white male conspiring to make this up.

[Anonymous No.8917185]

>>8917114

[Anonymous No.8917223]

>>8917160
Pretty much this. There can be great feminist writers like Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir, but the problem with most feminist literature today is that it gets its adherents to assume that just because they are a woman they are intrinsically interesting and deep.

Rupi Kaur is the perfect example of this. Her poetry is terrible and all on the same theme. If she wasn't a woman and a poc nobody would give her two seconds of attention. Instead her banal observations and platitudes land her a spot on the bestseller list and a ton of praise.

Just because an observation comes from a woman doesn't make it interesting. Just being a woman doesn't make you special or absolve you of responsibility for your decisions. And no, showing pictures of your period is not a revolutionary act.

Woolf and Austen are part of the canon because their work had value in and of itself. That's the only test that matters.

[Anonymous No.8917235]

>>8917223
The reason that Woolf and Austen attained to that level was because men had brutally harsh standards for judging a woman's work, too.

Being overly judged is better than being overly assumed to be interesting.

Women are being kept in perpetual childhood by this. Society's reaction to Rupi Kaur is a parent's reaction to his five year old drawing a snowman with feet. Snowmen don't have feet, but we'll put it on the fridge anyway.

[Anonymous No.8917238]

the clears tears
from my face
reflect
the red tears
from my womanhood

[Anonymous No.8917241]

>>8917120
I went and got started with the cover image.

[Anonymous No.8917243]

>>8916832
JOYCE REINCARNATED!

[Anonymous No.8917246]

>>8916893
True, but he could have added some because he did not notice it.

[Anonymous No.8917251]

>>8916972
Hi Rupi Joyce!

[Anonymous No.8917259]

when it rains
it pours
they say
why can't love
pour
like rain

[Anonymous No.8917262]

>>8917241
How about this, something sweeter is needed.

[Anonymous No.8917264]

>>8917241
Needed a pun

[Anonymous No.8917265]

>>8917241
we should juxtapose images related to the poems like she did, but with memes and pastebin watermarked shit

[Anonymous No.8917271]

>>8916645

stop complaining about rupi kaur. her concepts of her poems didn't need to be original because i didn't know that rape and molestation had to be an original concept.

[Anonymous No.8917272]

>>8917148
That was genuinely
amazing
well done
sir

[Anonymous No.8917273]

>>8917155
Because its funny faegot

[Anonymous No.8917277]

>>8917271
Rape is a sexy concept.

[Anonymous No.8917278]

>>8917160
How did it go from Jane Eyre to this, the worst thing is hat the ones that read Jane Eyre STILL act like this!

[Anonymous No.8917279]

>>8917271
literally no one brought into question the integrity of her poetry.

it's undercooked tumblr
sophistry with
line breaks and
no
discernable
talent
targeted towards the most
gullible fucks
i'm the history of
the
internet

[Anonymous No.8917290]

>>8916893
That isn't blank verse. Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. You're thinking of free verse.

[Anonymous No.8917292]

>>8917223
this, this and this!

[Anonymous No.8917301]

>>8917279

she writes from personal experiences and some quite hard topics and it's really kind of fucking rude for you to think it's garbage and an insult to good writing. intellectual bullshit

[Anonymous No.8917303]

>>8916799
Keep in mind that this will be the name of /lit/'s mascot, I think we might need to come up with a /lit/ name and change it around so it becomes more foreign.

[Anonymous No.8917309]

>>8917303

Luisa J. Borgina

[Anonymous No.8917313]

>>8917309
this

[Anonymous No.8917317]

>>8917301
back to tumblr

[Anonymous No.8917326]

>>8917301
it isn't her experiences that are being diminished or invalidated, it's her work.

she never made it passed note-taking and it's a perfect synecdoche of this age of pandering to maximum emotion with minimal effort. There is simply no craftsmanship or respect for the poetry medium.
I'm not going into detail but I can almost promise you I've endured more trauma than Kaur; it doesn't justify whatever the hell this is supposed to be, there is some measure of "death of the author" taken into account. bearing in mind that she went through some shit while reading her work is subtractive to the work.
She has enough rudimentary ideas in her book to craft a genuinely respectable (albeit shorter) work, and she opted to print out her notes instead.

[Anonymous No.8917328]

>>8917114
>>8917264

[Anonymous No.8917330]

>>8917272
>>8917151
There you go anons

[Anonymous No.8917339]

>>8917326

I don't think anyone asked for your "opinion," anon. You can see yourself out of this post.

there are very few kinds of people worse than book snobs, i swear. i wish they would just read their "real" poets and enjoy it instead of trying to prove to everyone that they have Better Taste(tm) and that they are the True Intelectuals(tm). honestly, nobody cares, we're all too busy minding our own businesses.

[Anonymous No.8917341]

>>8917328

[Anonymous No.8917342]

>>8917328
>>8917330
Ecstasy, shall we make a new thread?

[Anonymous No.8917343]

This is
a
poem because I
Said so

[Anonymous No.8917346]

>>8917303

Someone made a Joycean one above
>>8916832

[Anonymous No.8917361]

>>8917341
kek. we should instead of writing another hypersphere just make a milk and honey knockoff.

[Anonymous No.8917363]

>>8917328
>>8917330
Bruh fix my typo
>>8916997

and hook your boy up with a legit image, I want pseuds on tumblr to give it a fuckload of notes without realizing what they're doing

[Anonymous No.8917368]

>>8917341

[Anonymous No.8917376]

>>8917339
>I don't think anyone asked for your "opinion," anon. You can see yourself out of this post.
>honestly, nobody cares, we're all too busy minding our own businesses
wew lass

[Anonymous No.8917380]

>>8916732
i would
reccomend the latest
edition of norton.
but
a single collection of shakespeare
is large
for individual plays
try folger, or arden if you decide you
want lots of notes.

[Anonymous No.8917396]

>>8917363
Ok anon, creme and sugar version with fixed lines

[Anonymous No.8917398]

>>8917363
>>8917368

[Anonymous No.8917403]

We don't need
to start with old writing
when what
we have now
was always out of sight
to them

What we need
is young
strong
passionate
in no couplets

[Anonymous No.8917406]

>>8917394
Did it, come on in!

[Anonymous No.8917410]

>>8917396
I meant this one.lel
>>8916997

[Anonymous No.8917412]

>>8917398

lol god damn

[Anonymous No.8917416]

>>8917398
das it mane

[Anonymous No.8917419]

>>8917398
What's the best way of releasing this into the wild?

[Anonymous No.8917425]

>>8917419
>>8917406
Start with this thread

[Anonymous No.8917431]

>>8916921
>>8917398

[Anonymous No.8917433]

>>8917398
I unironically like this.

[Anonymous No.8917449]

[Anonymous No.8917455]

>>8917279
lol do this one

[Anonymous No.8917463]

>>8916906
>>8917431

[Anonymous No.8917469]

>>8917339
lol what the fuck is this

If you want to actively consume and defend shitty poetry and literature then this board isn't for you. "Book snobs" are valuable for giving trendy trash the exact amount of respect it deserves. If that business that you're so busy with is reading Starbucks-flavored feel-good ephemera then you really shouldn't be wasting that valuable time on /lit/.

[Anonymous No.8917476]

>>8917431
wait that picture from that emo album what the hell

[Anonymous No.8917480]

>>8917476
ayyy someone knew.

[Anonymous No.8917494]

>>8916728
>>8917463
alright, I'm done messing around for now

[Anonymous No.8917495]

with girls,
nature endows them
for a few years
with a richness of beauty
and a fulness
of charm
at the expense
of the rest of their lives

[Anonymous No.8917501]

>>8917463
How do you make these, I have an idea for one of these.

[Anonymous No.8917514]

>>8917501
It's not too hard
Cambria font at 6pt
773x1000 canvas
consistent text placement
google images + quick photoshop clean up of images

[Anonymous No.8917515]

woman will be brought back
to her proper and natural place
and the lady
that monster
of European civilisation
and Christian–Teutonic stupidity
will no longer exist
there will still be women
but no unhappy women
of whom Europe
is at present full

[Anonymous No.8917516]

>>8916645

[Anonymous No.8917546]

>>8917516
kek

[Anonymous No.8917549]

[Anonymous No.8917568]

>>8917515
makes me think of Lady Brett Ashley desu

[Anonymous No.8917579]

>>8917235
trooth
look at George 'Mary ann Evan' Eliot

[Anonymous No.8917616]

>>8917568
It's Schopenhauer

I was thinking to try to disguise some parts of obviously misogynist works as Rupi-style poetry.

[Anonymous No.8917668]

>>8917616
brilliant. I think that's a better direction to go with this, rather than just mimicking her and spouting the same sjw ideology.

[Anonymous No.8917704]

a black
person doesn't
always fire
first
why won't you
unforgiving whites
recognize that
????

[Anonymous No.8917762]

>>8916748
muh Cioran

[Anonymous No.8917803]

>>8916669
>>8916768
how are these satire

[Anonymous No.8917864]

I
am sick of being me.
but no one else can be me,
just like no one can be you.
keep being you,
it is all you can do

[Anonymous No.8917983]

the pain of
my own being
isnt a joke
nor finite

it is the accumulated
experience
of
blackness

white people
do something

[Anonymous No.8918019]

yesterday i bought
a plant from
wal*mart and i brought
it home in
a plastic bag later i
brushed my teeth
but only after putting the plant
in a clay pot this
mornning i had a nightmare
i am the potted
plant

spoopy dream -gyri kayg

[Anonymous No.8918021]

Writers like Kaur - young poets in general - have ruined contemporary poetry.

There never seems to be any actual skill - no rhyme, no meter, no imagery, no wordplay - there's nothing that separates these people from your average cunt on tumblr
who
writes poems
like this
about her life,
or about her subjective view on it.

They should end themselves.

[Anonymous No.8918062]

>>8916689
>Just her wiki entry, cut into her shitty line verses
Actually brilliant

[Anonymous No.8918312]

>>8918062

how 'for the tra' is cut off and then visually spills into the "sh" sound of the "she gains" in the next line, thereby finishing the thought we all have

[Anonymous No.8919032]

>>8917328

[Anonymous No.8919097]

>>8916645
last night i
had a dream that
i was all alone but
i woke up and looked
around my room to
see my
cat and i didn't
feel lonely
anymore

[Anonymous No.8919309]

he tells you
to spread your legs
as if
he can enter when
he pleases but
you are a castle
and he is not
welcome

[Anonymous No.8919337]

>>8919309
Missed a prime opportunity for a shitty Kafka allusion.

[Anonymous No.8919385]

ilu lit

[Anonymous No.8919637]

the kindness
between two women
is a bird calling out
into the morning