Findings:
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- There was once a Man
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There Once Was a Farmer
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Once there was a way...
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- 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
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a young lady of Riga
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- 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
- 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.
- I was once young and had a home
- I once dreamt that I was a line
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- 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
- No shit, there I was
- 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 once I was
- Looks like 1984 was only n years off
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
- I was a free man once, in Saigon
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- 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
- Once was enough
- 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.
- Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
- What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
- What if architecture was like web design?
- I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
- Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- There was always the blue of you
- 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 desert island
- My skin felt like I was falling
- There was an Old Man on some rocks
- I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
- 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!
- It was the year 2000. Nobody knew what was coming.
- 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
- Crazy? I was crazy once.
- Where Once Life Was
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- There was a time when I was a better person
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
- 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,
- 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
- Finding air where matter once was
- 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.
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- 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
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- There Was No Leak
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
- With him it was always like
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
- 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
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- There was no one waiting for me...
- like nothing ever was
- seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
- Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
- I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
- There was a little girl
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- Once, everyone was a computer novice
- I was once stranded on a dessert island
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Leather-bound organizer
- I was in a blindfold taste test once...
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- I was in a commercial once
- I once was a clueless young noder
- This Dust Was Once the Man
- What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
- every noder was once a normal human
- I was adored once too
- I was a nice guy once
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- Love is stored in the memories of what once was
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- 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
- It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
- I Was the Loner of Paradise Valley
- someone I thought I knew once
- we always knew we'd find someone just like you
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