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There once was a man from St. Paul
There was once a Man
There was a man and a woman
I was a free man once, in Saigon
Once there came a man
There was a man who lived a life of fire
There once was a girl named Irene
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
There Once Was a Farmer
Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
This Dust Was Once the Man
There Was a Man of Double Deed
There was a man with tongue of wood
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
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 chicken named Alice
Once there was a way...
Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string
the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
I was in a blindfold taste test once...
So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
No shit, there I was
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
A knock there was upon the door
He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
There was a moment of drunken silence
There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
I was a nice guy once
The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
I was there
There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
There Was No Leak
Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
Once, everyone was a computer novice
I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
Your husband was a great man
The Man Who Wasn't There
There was a time when I was a better person
Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
and there was this girl
There was a young lady of Riga
What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
Adam really was the first man
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 was always the blue of you
If there is a wise woman, it is her
There was no one waiting for me...
I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
Before inertia, there was impetus
The Man Who Was (user)
Once you have tasted flight: In defense of manned space travel
My man was shot for his sheep coat
There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
A learned man came to me once
Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
Leather-bound organizer
I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
Once I helped a man die
That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
every noder was once a normal human
Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
Love is stored in the memories of what once was
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
Where's the kaboom?
There was this one great night at Alice's house,
the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
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 a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
There was a little girl
Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
Before you, there was me
He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
There Was a Desert in My Head
There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
Somewhere north of Houston, there is a short smelly man that I don't care for
Jesus was a black man
Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules.
The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
The Man Who Was Thursday
Man Was Made to Mourn
Victor Burczyki, a man who once bought me a beer and told me this story
The Wise Man's Fear
Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
man when you are telling me how it was
There is no man in the sky who cares what we eat and drink and fuck
I Used to Know a Man Who Killed Me Once a Week
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
man, there sure are a lot of stories
Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
I was in a commercial once
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 once young and had a home
Crazy? I was crazy once.
Where Once Life Was
Finding air where matter once was
I was adored once too
what once I was
Once was enough
She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
There was a rose that faded young
you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
I remember, there was one
It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
There was an old lady
she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
Man was created in God's image
There was a land where lived no violets
There Was a Child Went Forth
One hour there was sunlight
He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
Was it ever there?
I once dreamt that I was a line
"He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
There Was A Friend
There was a time before
Unfortunately, there was no applause
There was a cold day
Was There a Time
So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
God was created in man's image
Well-Manicured Man
The Man of La Mancha
Little Big Man
Impressing a man
Stick it to the man
Old Man Murray
Renaissance man
Repo Man
Ray Wise
Rasputin: A hard man to kill
Asian Man Records
Sabre Man
man in the moon
God's Gift To Man
The lopside-head man
There once was a man from Nantucket
See a man about a dog

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