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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Flashlights
Handing
Stars
Dark
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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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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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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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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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In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.
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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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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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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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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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We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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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 don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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When your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and pray for rain.
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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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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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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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You can stand on the cliff of my heart and shout nothing but ‘ugly’ through me. I promise all I will echo back is ‘Beauty, beauty, you have always been beauty
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Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches, And soup, And peanut butter cookies, Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil, But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
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