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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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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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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I don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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Love isn't always magic. But if I offered my body to the magician, if I told him to cut me in half so after that I could come to you whole and ask for you back would you listen for this dark alley love song? For the winter we heated our home from the steam off our own bodies?
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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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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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 thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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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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