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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
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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.
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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
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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'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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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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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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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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