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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
Boxed
Labeled
Speak
Dream
Become
Able
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Believe

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Touch me 'til my ribs become piano keys.
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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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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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