Findings:
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- There was once a Man
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There Once Was a Farmer
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Once there was a way...
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There was a baby in China
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- Love is stored in the memories of what once was
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There was a rose that faded young
- Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
- I could do without it, if I knew what it was
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
- I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
- My skin felt like I was falling
- The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Before you, there was me
- The first time I knew I was different
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- What if architecture was like web design?
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- There was a land where lived no violets
- The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- Finding air where matter once was
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
- What I would do If I knew what was good for me
- There was a man and a woman
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- I was there
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- UK's response to 'Extroadinary Rendition': SIS knew US was torturing suspects.
- No shit, there I was
- Looks like 1984 was only n years off
- What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
- Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
- I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
- Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- She knew what she was doing
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- I was once stranded on a dessert island
- Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
- I was in a blindfold taste test once...
- Leather-bound organizer
- Crazy? I was crazy once.
- It was the year 2000. Nobody knew what was coming.
- I was adored once too
- I was once young and had a home
- This Dust Was Once the Man
- like nothing ever was
- There was no one waiting for me...
- There was a time when I was a better person
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- I remember, there was one
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- There was an old lady
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- Where's the kaboom?
- Was it ever there?
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- what once I was
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- and there was this girl
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- Was There a Time
- One hour there was sunlight
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- There was a time before
- 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.
- A knock there was upon the door
- There Was A Friend
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- There was a cold day
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- If I was beautiful like you
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- There Was No Leak
- I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- With him it was always like
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- 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.
- There was always the blue of you
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- There was a little girl
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- I was once stranded on a desert island
- I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- I once dreamt that I was a line
- I once was a clueless young noder
- I was in a commercial once
- I was a free man once, in Saigon
- Where Once Life Was
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
- 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!
- I was a nice guy once
- I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- Once, everyone was a computer novice
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- Once was enough
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
- every noder was once a normal human
- It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
- This guy I once knew, Jason
- someone I thought I knew once
- We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
- we always knew we'd find someone just like you
- And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
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