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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Thousand
Mother
Heart
Things
Louder
Heartbeat
Soldier
Gun

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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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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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