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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
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
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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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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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she's wondering how many women are walking around this world feeling the tingling of their amputated wings remembering what it was to fly to sing
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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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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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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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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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I have never met a heavy heart that wasn’t a phone booth with a red cape inside Some people will never understand the kind of superpower it takes for some people to just walk outside Some days I know my smile looks like the gutter of a falling house But my hands are always holding tight to the ripchord of believing
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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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That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.
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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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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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