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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.

Andrea Gibson

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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Every lover is a storm chaser. Every good heart has lost its roof.
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You keep worrying you’re taking up too much space. I wish you’d let yourself be the milky way.
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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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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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We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.
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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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I could never trust anyone who's well adjusted to a sick society.
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I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.
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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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Someday we will dare to trade good for true
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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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If you ever reach enlightenment. will you remember how to laugh?
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I intend to leave this life so shattered there's gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts
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Do you know they found land mines in woman's souls.
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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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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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Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.
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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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...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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