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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
Boys
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Simple
Swing
Mind
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Never
Hey
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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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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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We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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I thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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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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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
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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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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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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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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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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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I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
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