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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
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Andrew Gibson
Boys
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Simple
Swing
Mind
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Never
Hey
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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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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This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.
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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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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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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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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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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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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.
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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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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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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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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 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’d cut my soul into a million different pieces just to form a constellation to light your way home. I’d write love poems to the parts of yourself you can’t stand. I’d stand in the shadows of your heart and tell you I’m not afraid of your dark.
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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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