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• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• If it was still then-
• 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.
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• If you are already walking impaired, take care when consuming drugs of any kind
• When I Was a Babe
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• The train that came to me in the dream was already a dead train
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• 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
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• 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.
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• If God was willing to let it be
• this was supposed to be a parable about the power of the imagination
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• Django Reinhardt was dead already
• it was true then
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• this is unlike the story it was written to be
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• 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 Grandmother was finished with us
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• The demon was just under three feet tall
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• When I was your age
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• When I Was a Lad
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• When touch was simple
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• When I was young Time had no wings
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• I remember when all this was trees
• When I Was A Baby
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• Some time when I was a teenager
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Was Already Gone.
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• It's hard to be enthusiastic about reading and books with someone that openly admits to being a bad reader
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• When our word was iron
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• That Was Then, This is Now
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• If Dr. Seuss Were a Tech Writer
• 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.
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• November 4, 1995
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• I was never any good at maths at school
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• When I Was a Boy
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• When I was young
• When I was ten years old
• When I was five
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When I Was Cruel
• When she was bad
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• When I was Fair and Young
• Back when our blood was still warm
• She was too beautiful to be human
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• Where's the kaboom?
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• When I was 9
• man when you are telling me how it was
• 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
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• Mister Chu was reading on the terrace
• When I Read the Book
• The little smile of recognition, peculiar to noticing a stranger reading your favorite book
• Ways of reading a book

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