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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Poetry
Small
Talk
Everything
Love

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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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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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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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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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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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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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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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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
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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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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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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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