Findings:
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Her name was Natalie
- I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
- When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
- It is her name that I think of when I think about being in love.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- They know me not by name, but numbers
- I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
- I will have her forever but I can't touch her
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- Her name is Claire
- All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
- I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
- but her emails
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
- You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
- I was sure it was her
- i thought i was special, but it was you
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
- Despite her station, the quarry was never alone
- All he left her was alone
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Here lies one whose name was writ in water
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
- How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- strange and too short but I was lonely
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- echoes of her glisten in your eyes; i also tear but without linger
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
- you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
- I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
- he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
- Not her voice, but the way her voice changes,
- I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
- You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- your fake name is not for everyone but good enough for me
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
- before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
- /but what was the question?
- but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
- The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
- what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
- She does not rustle but her flesh has the moonlit shade of a silver birch
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- One day I wrote her name upon the strand
- The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- They had left, but her mascara kept running
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- She always was devious in her beauty
- Her name is Rebecca
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- Her hair was seaweed and the Pacific wind sang
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- His ex-wife was so frigid, her clitoris was only the tip of the iceberg.
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- Jacques Chirac was shot in the head by a fascist named Jean-Marie Le Pen
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- making certain he was touching her
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
- I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
- But who codes the coders?
- butt naked
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
- Mr. Butts
- Words that sound dirty but really aren't
- There is no god but God
- That'd be the butt, Bob
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
- Butt hinge
- Butt joint
- I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
- I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
- But my computer really IS possessed
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- Butt crack of dawn
- Lots of MIPS but no I/O
- Things people put up their butts
- Project B.U.T.T.
- It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
- I have a most elegant proof of that, but this node is too small to contain it
- Sororities are nothing but social crutches
- butts ARE litter
- You may think I'm lying, but it's true
- But what are they really thinking?
- Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
- I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
- I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
- But I digress
- If I could slip this skin but for a moment
- Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
- My library books are late, but I don't care
- BQN: But, one for all?
- Sexist jokes
- Yard Butt
- Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
- Not really by the rules, but...
- No, but I'll have a beer
- Free but worthless shares
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- I know you are, but what am I?
- You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
- Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
- I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
- Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
- You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
- A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
- 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- My Mother and I Love Your Butt
- You know to me she's but a fetish
- you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
- If you can't help it, fuck it!
- You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
- It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
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