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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Ugly
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Pretty
Alibi

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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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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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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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We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
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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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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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The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.
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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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We're boxed in and labeled before we're ever able to speak who we believe we are or who we dream we'll become.
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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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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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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.
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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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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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But whatever However Whenever this ends I want you to know That right now I love you forever
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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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