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I don't have a single plan for my life more important than learning to love people well.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Single
Learning
Wells
Well
Important
Love
Life
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People
Plans

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...And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the color, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against show them what you’re for.
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If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane.
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Your ignorance keeps dismembering every piece of patience I have left.
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My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.
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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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We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
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You have a heart of gold and I am kneeling in your bloodstream panning for the only thing that has ever felt like home.
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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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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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To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.
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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 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'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 don't believe we're hateful. I think mostly we're just asleep, but the math adds up the same.
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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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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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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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