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Hey, are you a boy or a — never mind, can I have a push on the swing?” And some day, y’all, when we grow up, it’s all gonna be that simple.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Swing
Mind
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Boys

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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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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.
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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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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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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.
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You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'
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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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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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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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