I think too much when I kiss. If love did not exist, I would be so goddamn sane. My poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be enough. I would not have to gut myself to find my spine, crushed into powder, and brushed on her cheekbones. My hair would not be a hummingbird’s nest. My mind would not have to move so fast to rest. — Andrea Gibson

I think too much when I kiss.

If love did not exist,

I would be so goddamn sane.

My poems would be billboards.

Suburbia would be enough.

I would not have to gut myself to find my spine,

crushed into powder,

and brushed on her cheekbones.

My hair would not be a hummingbird’s nest.

My mind would not have to move so fast to rest.

— Andrea Gibson

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