Findings:

• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• I Was On My Way Home When the Strangest Thing Happened
• 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
• How could anybody know how we got to be this way?
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• This was the way bodies were meant to behave
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• Things to do when technology gets here
• When our word was iron
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• When I Was A Baby
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• When I Was a Lad
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• November 4, 1995
• To Here Knows When
• Some time when I was a teenager
• Once there was a way...
• That great feeling when the dice go your way
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• I'm wishing Jesus was here again
• When I was young
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I was born this way
• When I was young Time had no wings
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• What am I doing here when I could be swimming with the dolphins?
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• When I Was a Babe
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• We celebrate the holidays when we can. In the ways we can afford to.
• When first my way to fair I took
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• When you move here we will have plenty of time to have fun together
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• I was the liar; here is the truth
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• Kilroy was here
• At Least It Was Here
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• Back when grunge was still cool
• How to flip a coin when you haven't got one
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• some say he was never here at all
• 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.
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• Back when our blood was still warm
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• I remember when all this was trees
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• 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?
• Coy or honestly shy, either way I have got mad designs on your dancy eyes
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• When Grandmother was finished with us
• Which way should you move your brush when doing Japanese calligraphy?
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• The space at that moment was a million ways freaky with invisible communication.
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• sifting sand to find fading past in smooth stones, sorrow was here
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• I am an impediment. I am here to get in your way.
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
• On My Way Here
• Democracy assassinated the family that was here
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here
• You were here when I fell asleep
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• BROOKS WAS HERE
• the rock here is strange. it moves when i am not looking.
• It was always hot here
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• When I was your age
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• The whole world changed when Paul got shuffled over to the bass
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• I've Got Your McFlurry Right Here: Help Welcome donfreenut to Swinging London
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way
• My way of showing love was consumption
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• When touch was simple
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• When I Was a Boy
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• It was the way your
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• When I was ten years old
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• When she was bad
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• When I was five
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• "I was born this way" as justification for gay rights harms the gay and lesbian community
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• When I was Fair and Young
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• 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 he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• The dynasty made people die in nasty ways. This mess was necessary and they're not sorry.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• When I Was Cruel
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
• An infallible way to discern whether a decade, in pop culture terms, was win or fail
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• When I was 9
• man when you are telling me how it was
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

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