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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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Andrew Gibson
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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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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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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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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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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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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong
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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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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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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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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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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
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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 keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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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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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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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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