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My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Something
Burning
Mouth
Naked
Mouths
Coming
Fire
Words
Care
Escape

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If a tree fell in the forest, and you were the only one there to hear it if its fall to the ground didn’t make a sound, would you panic in fear that you didn’t exist, or would you bask in the bliss of your nothingness?
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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores today i cried so hard the neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wanted to borrow some sugar.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
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We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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