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Andrea Gibson
“I think almost everyone tries hard to do good,
and just finds out too late
they should have tried softer.
I’ve never in my whole life been level headed.
but the older I get the more level hearted.
And I think we made gods who look like us for a reason
I think, in spite of it all, we trust we can be believed in.
When I don’t believe in myself
I try to remember I have walked on water,
like, 700 times
in Maine in the dead of winter.
Where I come from you can drive
a pick-up truck from one side
of the lake to the other.
And people have an unusually
large amount of missing teeth
and fingers, but you can still sell them
whitening strips and wedding rings
like crazy,
because where I come from
beauty is in the eye of anyone
who sees what’s missing,
but can’t stop pointing to what’s still there.
If there is no definition for love yet
I think that’s a good one.”
