Only I know how broke I got
buying into the theory that my
life was something
that happened to me
and that's not to say I gave
every hurt a permissio… - Andrea Gibson
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Only I know how broke I got buying into the theory that my life was something that happened to me and that's not to say I gave every hurt a permission slip. I didn't. But I did cast myself in a lot of crappy roles. I've been told almost every argument is a race for the victim position. I'm tired of winning the gold.
Patriarchy taught me how to take a punch better than I could take a compliment.
Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
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I decided I was going to read only social justice poetry through my entire set. But when I was making my set list it hit me that the simple existence of the word 'she' in my love poem made it a political poem. Isn't that criminal? Isn't it criminal that love is a political thing? That the heart is a political thing?
