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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.

Andrea Gibson

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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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...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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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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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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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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Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.
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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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