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• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• 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.
• Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• Your angel stayed long after everything else was gone
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• 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.
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Why I politely asked the contemporary lit major I was dating to stop writing me love letters
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• I remember, there was one
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• untie the boat and turn on the water i'm gone i'm gone i'm gone but it's alright
• Jesus Was a One Beer Queer
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• 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.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• Each one was the scene where you hold your breath
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• I was alone for too long
• The one thing Superman was bad at
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• 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
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• Trompe
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• I was the center of gravity of Chicago for one beautiful Saturday
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• I was one of those girls
• Oh. I was wrong. She's the one. Goodbye.
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• One big happy random assortment of truckstop trinkets
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• 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.
• The day I found out I was a guy
• The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• every secret thing was made by some one
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• Heinlein was right- writing IS a disease....
• It was the least I could do
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
• At Least It Was Here
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• One hour there was sunlight
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• And Every One Was a Henry: A Magnificent Maryland Renaissance Oktoberfest E2 Throwdown!
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• 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 less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• the Abayudaya sang, no one was hungry and herds of buffalo roamed the plains
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• A pocket-sized device with a single button that says, "Everything as it was one minute ago".
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• No one ever said that the moral process of humanization was necessarily a pleasant thing.
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Besides the part where she was the only one
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• /but what was the question?
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• 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.
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• At least he was gentle
• And as the dreaming was danced, a sound went out
• I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Was Already Gone.
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• How long must I stay in my pajamas before I turn into Howard Hughes?
• I’ve stepped in many things but sex is a new one
• The sky is one long inhale
• One last kiss before the long goodbye
• long one (user)
• One Good Turn
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• For Roses Long Gone and For Roses Yet to Come
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• To One who has been Long in City Pent
• take the wind out of one's sails
• a dozen well-greased saboteurs couldn't get you out of this one
• Sometimes, my paranoia overtakes me and I find myself asking, "IS ONE OF THE E2 EDITORS OUT TO GET ME!?"
• Life is material; you just have to live long enough to figure out how to use it
• An E2 Seattle debauch aftermath node
• To boldly go where no one has gone before
• They will love him long after he is gone.
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
• One long June I came down from the trees
• long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to the light
• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• Ski piss
• No One Here Gets Out Alive
• when i stay in one spot too long, i lose the feel of the world
• one out of three
• BQN: But, one for all?
• You have to watch out for the quiet ones
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured
• One day I will step out of my body and burst into bloom
• Pour one out for your dead homies
• Because: Context is not important. Because: My life is one long series of contexts.
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• Long Gone Before Daylight
• Scent of a memory lost in time
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• How to find out if an egg has gone bad
• I will love them all when everyone else is long gone
• Long after Saturday's gone
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• Long Gone John
• Like white light? Or a long low moan that turns into laughing? Or the holes in Jesus' hands?
• The music makes one's blood boil and long to be in some obscure, untamed place with the one you love
• Choosing bitterness is taking the easy way out. It's so easy to feel bitter when you've been hurt. Path of least resistence. Forgiveness is a path that goes in a very different direction.
• A boy and his shadow standing on a long shore trying to figure out the intentions of the sun
• please come stay with me in the forest so at least i have one person with whom i have no secrets
• This is an ode to the one I have loved the least

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