Rudy Francisco Quotes

I was told
The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7
She picks the colors and the cake first
By the age of 10
She knows time,
And location
By 17
She's already chosen a gown
2 bridesmaids
And a maid of honor
By 23
She's waiting for a man
Who wont break out in hives when he hears the word "commitment"
Someone who doesn't smell like a Band-Aid drenched in lonely
Someone who isn't a temporary solution to the empty side of the bed
Someone
Who'll hold her hand like it's the only one they've ever seen
To be honest
I don't know what kind of tux I'll be wearing
I have no clue what want my wedding will look like
But I imagine
The women who pins my last to hers
Will butterfly down the aisle
Like a 5 foot promise
I imagine
Her smile
Will be so large that you'll see it on google maps
And know exactly where our wedding is being held
The woman that I plan to marry
Will have champagne in her walk
And I will get drunk on her footsteps
When the pastor asks
If I take this woman to be my wife
I will say yes before he finishes the sentence
I'll apologize later for being impolite
But I will also explain him
That our first kiss happened 6 years ago
And I've been practicing my "Yes"
For past 2, 165 days
When people ask me about my wedding
I never really know what to say
But whe

Instead of asking
why they left,
now I ask,
what beauty will I create
in the space the no longer
occupy?

am learning that this body is not a shotgun.
I am learning that this body is not a pistol.
I am learning that a man is not defined
by what he can destroy.

They now know solitude does not
scare people like us
and our absence is something
that we are not afraid to give
to those who call for it.

Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense?

On the day you couldn't hold yourself together anymore,
you called for me, voice crackling like two sets of knuckles
before an altercation.

I found you, looking like a damaged wine glass.
I hugged your shatter, I cut all of my fingers
trying to jigsaw puzzle you back together.

When it was over,
you looked at the stains on the carpet
and blamed me for making a mess.

If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping to resurrect as someone spiteful enough to not care about you.

I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.

I'm still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.

I know that our hands break things just as frequent as we can fix them. And we often forget that sexism / is a family heirloom that we've been passing down for generations. As men, it is important that we start asking ourselves / What will the boys learn from us?

The word "repurpose"
means to take an object
and give it amnesia.

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Do you know the human body is approximately
sixty percent water? When I walk into a room
full of people, all I see is an ocean.

They will push you away, tell you
to leave, but have no idea how good
you are at following instructions.

Tell me how blessed we are to have tragedy / so small it can fit on the tips of our tongues. (from 'Complainers')

My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors
And trying to convince my shadow that I'm someone worth following

She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.

And the answer is
not every building that shakes
will collapse.

The answer is
not everything that chips
will crumble.

Being black is one of the most extreme sports in America.
We don't need to invent new ways of risking our lives
because the old ones have been working for decades.

The difference between a garden and a graveyard is only what you choose to put in the ground

She is my musician, and me, I'm her favorite song.

I hate you, but I still I miss you, and a part of me still loves you.

I write best when I am either, falling in love, or falling apart.

I heard that karma is vengeful and is also a light sleeper. So I've chosen to love you like this.
Quietly.

I wonder how long it took to convince
the first rifle that it could hold a note
instead of a bullet, but still fire into a crowd
and make everyone move

Simeona
My mother
wears her wrinkles
the way an ocean
wears a wave.
She is the only
body of water
that refuses
to let me drown

I loved you the same way that I learned how to ride a bike: Scared ... but reckless.

Volcano surfing
is a sport in which a person
rides down an active volcano
at speeds up to 50 miles per hour
using nothing but a wooden board.

When I heard about this activity,
I thought to myself,
it must be nice to feel so safe,
you have to invent new ways to
put yourself in danger.

Five: Cupid is irresponsible, and I'm tired of him using me for target practice.

Failure is when you talk yourself out of becoming something amazing.

My biggest fear is forgetting why I fell in love with writing. My biggest dream is never allowing that to happen.

My definition of love is being robbed in an alley eight times in a row and hoping that there's something about today that makes all of this different.

Maybe this whole time, I already had the things I've been asking others to give me.

The most destructive instruments can still create a melody worth dancing to.

Jim Crow may have left the nest but our streets are still covered in his feathers

A moment that is diligently
staring at its watch, trembling with
nervousness, frustrated,
and bursting at the seams,
wondering what's taking me
so long to arrive.

you wouldn't let me
love both of us
at the same time