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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
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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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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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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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Safety isn't always safe. You can find one on every gun.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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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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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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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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Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
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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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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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I would kiss you in the middle of the ocean during a lightning storm cuz I'd rather be left for dead than wondering what thunder sounds like.
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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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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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We have to create it is the only thing louder than destruction.
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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.
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