Findings:
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- When she was bad
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- When I was ten years old
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- Is it fair for him to love me when she craves his touch?
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
- I was my mom for a while
- When she sleeps, is she not moving her legs aside for an unknown garrison?
- She Was 18, It Was Summer
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- when she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride to whisky and gin
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- When I was young
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When I was your age
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- When I was 9
- When I was Fair and Young
- So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- I would have liked thunder when she left
- She was locked in time
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She misses me
- she was just the dry smell of gasoline
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- When I was five
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- When I was young Time had no wings
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- I'm gonna miss this light when it's gone. I'm gonna miss this darkness too.
- What the hell was she thinking?
- piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- And when she turned into a man, we were so proud
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
- The House on the Island Where She Was Born
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- When you're little, mom and dad are superheroes
- Things I miss about mom
- if you fear spells, look away when she decides to share her hair with the wind.
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- And When She Sings
- She was too beautiful to be human
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- 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.
- she was waylaid by an octopus
- Venus, when she is the evening star
- She Misses Him
- The glass is half full when it comes to your life up until this point. The glass is half empty when it comes to everything you've missed out on.
- When I Was a Boy
- How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When I Was a Lad
- November 4, 1995
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- When touch was simple
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- When I Was Cruel
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- 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.
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- I miss you when you're away. Please go.
- Back when our blood was still warm
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- man when you are telling me how it was
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- When I Was A Baby
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- She dumped me when she found out I'd been faking my Scottish accent
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- 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.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- She is stupidly keeping herself a secret, when I know she has sparkly things to show me
- She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits
- She was steady
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
- She always was devious in her beauty
- His face when she fell
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
- I did not miss what my body did not remember, until it was reminded
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- When she died
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- She was free
- She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
- She is and was
- She is what happens when silence makes love with night.
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- She knew what she was doing
- It must be morning when she dreams.
- When she is talking to him
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- Besides the part where she was the only one
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- she is the sort of woman who, when put to the magnifying glass, refused to burn
- When she shouts BE QUIET THE NEIGHBORS WILL HEAR IF YOU'RE NOT QUIET
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- When searching for the soul, do not miss the forest for the trees.
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- Back when grunge was still cool
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- When I'm wearing a bonnet and sipping pretend tea with Miss Ponykins and Zippy the Ugly Zebra, that's when I feel the most like a man
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