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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Never
Poem
Door
Window
Doors
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Written
Always

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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.
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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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