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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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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
Dream
Become
Able
Ever
Believe
Boxed
Labeled
Speak

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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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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.
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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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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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Know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay.
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Sometimes the break in your heart is like the hole in the flute. Sometimes it’s the place where the music comes through.
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You are not weak just because your heart feels so empty.
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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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I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun I know the heartbeat of his mother.
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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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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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Love isn't always magic. Sometimes it's just melting.
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
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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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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyon from the moon.
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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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For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
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