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Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Pain
Feel
Feels
Made
Avalanche
Avalanches
Road
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You can find me on the moon waxing and waning. My heart full of petals, every single one begging 'Love me, love me, love me. Whoever I am. Whoever I become.'
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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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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I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good at loving things that can't love me back, that don't have the power to leave. And maybe, that's why I love them.
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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 thought, The flowers, save the flowers... I never thought for a second we wouldn't save the people
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And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.
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Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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This is my body. It is no one's but mine.
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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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The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.
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What Gods do you believe in? I'll build you a temple of mirrors so you can see them.
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Fear is only a verb if you let it be. Don't you dare let go of my hand!
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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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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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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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But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.
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