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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
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Soldier
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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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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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I have always been comfortable weathering the storm. I’d like to get more comfortable weathering the sunny day.
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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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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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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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Yes, I like girls Yes, I like boys I like boys who like boys I like girls who wear toys and girls who don't I like girls who don't call themselves girls Crew cuts or curls or that really bad hair phase in between.
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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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Sometimes the most healing thing to do is remind ourselves over and over and over, other people feel this too.
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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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and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the first time his finger clicks the trigger. We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘it hurts to become.
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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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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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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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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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You can have a cold war with yourself, even in the summertime
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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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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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