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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
Mind
Swings
Never
Hey
Push
Gonna
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Boys
Grows
Simple
Swing

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Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they're falling like they're falling in love with the ground.
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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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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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I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.
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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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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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Yes, I like girls Yes, I like boys I like boys who like boys I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't I like girls who don't call themselves girls Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.
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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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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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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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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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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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