Rudy Francisco is well known through the Slam community due to competing in the Individual World Poetry Slam about 5 times and taking home the title, Champion in 2010. Rudy tends to tell tales of his own life in his poetry, but he ties them into a bigger discussion. He uses many qualities and observations such as introspection, humor, honesty, and human nature in his poetry to hopefully spark social change (Francisco). Rudy writes a poem, "Chameleon" that is a perfect example of how his poetry starts with a story. In this poem, Rudy finds he shares the same name as a fellow student's chameleon which was brought in for show and tell. A few lines later Rudy writes,
They say you gotta peel a woman like a tangerine/And your job as a man is to
