Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I was 13! I was too naive. For a second I thought he was saying it like it was a universal truth. It probably WAS to him."

• 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.
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• With him it was always like
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• I married him because he was not mean
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• I was Chris to him
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• The teachers thought I was insane
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• in the morning it was almost too dead center
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• That week with her was like drinking bubbles
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• As I was saying to my goldfish
• more sure of all I thought was true
• He was hard in all the wrong places
• I thought that what I was taught was true.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• 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.
• Tom, He was a Piper's Son
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• I Thought I Was A Child
• He Was a Crook
• More than he was willing to give
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Truth was in that mountain
• making certain he was touching her
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• The sparkle of this angled blossoming was invading the Earth, and Vug said, "It's spring!" I kissed him.
• Looks like 1984 was only n years off
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• At least he was gentle
• He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
• She grew a little older, while he was telling her
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• he was a punk poet himself
• That's Just How He Was
• She was too beautiful to be human
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• He Was Only Joking
• I was alone for too long
• like nothing ever was
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• all it cost him was a Penny
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• What if architecture was like web design?
• If I was beautiful like you
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• My skin felt like I was falling
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• that pain was something I needed, and probably did to myself
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
• 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.
• the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• Dumb laws
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• All he left her was alone
• I Thought My Father Was God
• It was 1992. He smiled.
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• I was adored once too
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• How Eulenspiegel, along with the other boys, was made to eat too much bread
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• The beggar who was too rich for my money
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• some say he was never here at all
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• He was found
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• I was the liar; here is the truth
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• It was the tree that gave him away.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• the magic that was meant to capture the outlaw instead transformed him into a monster
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• Vancouver, Washington
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Descartes was wrong
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• No shit, there I was
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
• the seven hills of Rome
• Was (Not Was)
• wa
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• "Oskee wee wee! Oskee wa wa!"
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
• was
• Kilroy was here
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• Music was better in the old days
• The Walrus was Paul

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