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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.
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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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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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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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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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Love is like sunshine. Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there. I want to know that I'm here.
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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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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I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies and they were real close to looking like the sunrise, and sometime it takes the most wounded wings the most broken things to notice how strong the breeze is, how precious the flight.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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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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You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.
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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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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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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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