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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
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Flashlights
Handing
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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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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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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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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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