Rudy Francisco

On days like this,

I am the house and

the ghost,

responsible for my

own haunting.

My brain is a revolver

with “Am I good enough?”

in every chamber.

So I turn into a factory that

only makes the word “yes”

and I say it until it can easily

be mistaken for the truth,

but my voice shakes

and the answer still sounds

like a question.

On days like this,

I am the house and

the ghost,

responsible for my

own haunting.

My brain is a revolver

with “Am I good enough?”

in every chamber.

So I turn into a factory that

only makes the word “yes”

and I say it until it can easily

be mistaken for the truth,

but my voice shakes

and the answer still sounds

like a question.

On days like this,

I am the house and

the ghost,

responsible for my

own haunting.

My brain is a revolver

with “Am I good enough?”

in every chamber.

So I turn into a factory that

only makes the word “yes”

and I say it until it can easily

be mistaken for the truth,

but my voice shakes

and the answer still sounds

like a question.

There was a moment in my life

when I couldn’t tell the difference

between a window and a mirror.

I could look into both

and see everything

but myself.

Your God stole my God’s identity.

So next time you bend your knees,

next time you bow your head

I want you to tell your God

that my God is looking for him.

is to say,

a weapon will always be a weapon

but we choose how we fight the war

and from this I learned that even our most

destructive instruments can still create a melody

The word “repurpose”

means to take an object

and give it amnesia.

It means to make something forget what

it’s been trained to do so you can

use it for a better reason.

I am learning that the difference between

a garden and a graveyard is only what

you choose to put in the ground.

I am learning that a person

who only knows how to fight

can only communicate in violence

and that shouldn’t be anyone’s first language.

I Bet the Trees Are Thinking
If they’re willing to pay

three dollars a gallon for gas,

imagine how much we can

charge them for oxygen.