Findings:

• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was once a Man
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Once there was a way...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• 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.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There Once Was a Farmer
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• You can't get there from here
• The trail of its demise was visible from the surf.
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Once was enough
• For every delayed technology there is a sudden, completely unexpected advance that jumps at us from the shadows
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• I was in a commercial once
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• every noder was once a normal human
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There was a little girl
• A knock there was upon the door
• The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• I was a nice guy once
• Once there came a man
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• I was adored once too
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a cold day
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I remember, there was one
• what once I was
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• There Was A Friend
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Rhesus Monkeys and Dormant Underwater Volcanos: the "I can't believe there's nobody here from Madagascar" E2 Madagascar get-together
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• Leather-bound organizer
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Where Once Life Was
• Finding air where matter once was
• I was once young and had a home
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a rose that faded young
• 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
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a time before
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was a land where lived no violets
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There was a baby in China
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There was always the blue of you
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I was there
• It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• qanat get there from here
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• I convert my crushes into friends, and from there to the status of Muse
• Deliver me from a place where there are no scars.
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• certain wisdoms about a place can only come from dying there
• The envelope held fingernail parings and a note which read, "There are more where these came from"
• 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.
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• I once was a clueless young noder
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• 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!
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was a time when I was a better person
• No shit, there I was
• Was it ever there?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• and there was this girl
• Where's the kaboom?
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a man and a woman
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Was There a Time
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• One hour there was sunlight
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was an old lady
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Before you, there was me
• There Was No Leak
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Notes from the Underground
• The Creature from the Black Lagoon
• Drinking from the water hose
• I've had better hugs from wind gusts and dead people
• Happy Labor Day from Insomnia Boy
• Small gifts from the universe
• Awful Green Things from Outer Space
• Muppets From Space
• Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
• If you can't spell, you're an idiot. "Original ideas" don't come from idiots.
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• Any sufficiently advanced music is indistinguishable from MIDI
• Swear words from science fiction
• From a Letter from Grant Richards to James Joyce, May 10, 1906
• FTP from my dreams
• Getting what you want from disgruntled lab techs
• lost in the wind from a butterfly's wings
• The Menace from Earth
• Erich Fromm
• RFC 1217
• Starting from Paumanok
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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