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I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong

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Andrea Gibson
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: August 13
Poet
Calais
Maine
Andrew Gibson
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Wrong
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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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Our insanity is not that we see people who aren’t there. It’s that we ignore the ones who are.
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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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Everything but I LOVE YOU is small talk.
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I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling good. I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling bad. I wanna know the first person who taught you your beauty could ever be reflected on a lousy piece of glass.
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Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.
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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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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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My heart is a parachute that has never opened in time.
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Everyone’s chest is a living room wall with awkwardly placed photographs hiding fist-shaped holes.
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I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.
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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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Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.
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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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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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Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?
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If you’re handing out flashlights in the dark, start handing out stars.
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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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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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So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.
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