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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Safety
Safe
Find
Every
Always
Gun

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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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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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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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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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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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