Am I
allowed
to tell you
    I love you?

'Cause I'm afraid
                   you'll say
                      you don't.

Convincing myself of my own importance
  —I became an audience of one

(Bryn Mawr College: Pennsylvania: January, 2014)

"Sometimes I tire
of poems
about poets,"*

said the poet.

everyone has experienced today in a different way.

I’d like to be patient
  —but I don’t have the time

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2013)

The weight dragged on,
  too heavy to carry

The weight dragged on,
  memories lost inside

The weight dragged on,
  questions without answers

Reasons in tatters
—the weight dragged on

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2013)

It was wrong to call you on your crap
Karma will do that soon enough

"Sometimes I'm the mess.
Sometimes I'm the broom.
On the hardest days, I have to be both."
~Rudy Francisco