"I don’t want to be the best lover you’ve ever had.
I just want to be your favorite."
— Derrick Brown (via theorthodoxheretic)
- 1 day ago
- 65
I think we should all take a moment to thank Rudy Francisco for existing.
(Source: how-pleasant)
- 4 days ago
- 25
"Pretend you live for a living. Pretend inside your skin you’ve got a friend who’s willing to give you everything you’ve ever wanted in exchange for everything you’ve ever been."
— Buddy Wakefield (via moqueur)
- 6 days ago
- 31
I saw him
suspended in the atmosphere
hanging on the pieces of a man
that no longer looks back at him in the mirror
he doesn’t even realize that he’s become his own ghost
a spectre
an apparition
haunting the man that he would be
if he could just shake the cold grip of the chemicals that have transposed their hands around his neck
he’s become a man with no shadow
no reflection
just a leaf
in the wind
whispering his story to the breeze
because god is the only one listening
Damn, Rudy.
- 1 week ago
- 9
5. I have seen you crucified too. Spread out on billboards to be spiritually impaled by millions of men with eyes like nails who made martyrs of your daughters. So I’m sorry for the music videos, for Justin Timberlake at the super bowl, and the young man on the corner this morning who made you want to shed your flesh and become invisible.
10. Never stop pushing. This world needs you now more than ever.
- 1 week ago
- 17
"scale the limbs, young brothers
as if they were monkey bars
or unbagged drugs
these days
it’s pick your poison
i guess
that color and they have reserved half of my body
to hold its own
like half of me is
like my father was
like my grandfather is
like my great grandfather and grandma Annabelle were
she’d cook for you too
yes, you
you with the basketball hoop and foul line for a father
back-pocket journal for a mother
and summer day to compare the rest of your life against"
— Miles Hodges, Harlem
- 2 weeks ago
- 6
"when I said ‘give me a ring’
she thought I meant a call
now I haven’t had her number for two years
and we keep saying,
how many times are we going to cut these red flags into valentines
you know all those wars we fought have turned our shine into rust
we can’t even touch each others hearts without a tetanus shot"
— Andrea Gibson, ‘Prism’ (via loverofstories)
- 4 weeks ago
- 62
"If I was a love poet, I’d write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful even on days when everything around you is ugly. I’d write about your eyelashes and how they are like violin strings that play symphonies every time you blinked."
— Rudy Francisco, If I was a love poet
- 1 month ago
- 86
"someday
you will throw a penny in a wishing well
and it will choke
because your dreams
are just too big for it to swallow"
— Rudy Francisco, For Black Graduation UC San Diego
- 1 month ago
- 47
"so i ask you
what kind of fool pets a vulture
whose stomach is empty"
— Jason Carney, Eighteen
- 1 month ago
- 9
"my hobbies include:
editing my life story
hiding behind metaphors
and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following"
— Rudy Francisco, My Honest Poem
- 1 month ago
- 22
"My body is a dead language
and you pronounce
each word perfectly"
— Sierra DeMulder, “Unrequited Love Poem” (via ineedhumanity)
- 1 month ago
- 205
"This is for the strong women..
Remember, this world, wasn’t built for you.
So if need be,
you tear it to the ground,
resurrect it in your image,
and make sure its just as beautiful,
as you are."
— Rudy Francisco
(Source: jahrager)
- 1 month ago
- 32
