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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 love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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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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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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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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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return?
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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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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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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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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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Yes, I like girls Yes, I like boys I like boys who like boys I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't I like girls who don't call themselves girls Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.
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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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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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