Status Updates From Leite e Mel

the abused
and the
abuser
- i have been both


Hmmm maybe that explains poems page 88 and 105?

Oh no...
There's another pick-me-narcisstic-girl energy poem....

Ngl, page 88 poem really put me off because I just can't understand it in any way other than a pick-me narcissistic girl who's pretending she's unforgettable and incomparable and is humiliating another woman

I seriously dissected this poem, read it over 15 times, did research, and have been thinking about it for 24 hours (not exaggerating) and there is no other way to understand it

Need someone who has read this book to discuss the poem on page 88 with me

thought provoking and emotional

I was wondering why Rupi writes in lower case, and found this on her website -- abridged edited response:

to symbolize and preserve these small details of my mother language (no case distinction since Gurmukhi script doesn't have any and only periods)
A visual manifestation and ode:
- to my identity as a diasporic Punjabi Sikh woman
- to what i want to see more of within the world: equallness

Such simple line work yet so beautifully done by Rupi that it truly complements her poems and reflections

The dichotomy from one poem to another about her father is just mind-blowing

you pinned
my legs to
the ground
with your feet
and demanded
i stand up

Trigger Warning - SA



the first boy that kissed me
held my shoulders down
like the handlebars of
the first bicycle
he ever rode
i was five

he had the smell of
starvation on his lips
which he picked up from
his father feasting on his mother at 4 a.m.