Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Trying to make a name for yourself on E2 by publishing poetry is like playing in the WNBA for fame. You might get a few points here and there, but practically nobody's watching and practically nobody cares."

• Rhesus Monkeys and Dormant Underwater Volcanos: the "I can't believe there's nobody here from Madagascar" E2 Madagascar get-together
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• She could run a spiel like nobody's business. She could sell the world and make you wish for more.
• What do you do when nobody cares anymore, not even yourself
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• Ain't nobody here but us chickens
• singing like nobody is there
• e2 is like having a conversation with yourself
• Nobody Knows It But Me
• Nobody cares who would win a fistfight between Anne Frank and Lizzie Borden
• Nobody's fault but mine
• Nobody cares about your fucking breasts!
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Some needlessly emo poetry trying desperately hard to make a pun midway through
• Nobody writes poetry about microbiology
• You can't get there from here
• Nobody for me but you
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• Nobody likes an iconoclast
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not.
• Nobody cares if it was originally a nodeshell
• There will be nobody there to shed a tear
• There's nobody to blame
• There's no point unless you make one
• Because everything is teetering nobody notices. But whenever something falls everybody knows.
• nobody writes poetry about nobody writing poetry
• To leave you there by yourself chained to fate
• Nobody writes poetry about science
• 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.
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Problems with E2 user poetry
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• qanat get there from here
• Realistically, it's probably a good thing that usually nobody's listening and nobody cares.
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• Now that there is no hell, evil folks like you just get reincarnated as McDonald's register jockeys
• There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• What if there were a war, and nobody came?
• If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody's around, does it make a sound?
• Nobody Likes a Bogan
• Nobody likes a cyclist
• nobody likes father-son presidential teams
• Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• Nobody writes poetry about financial security
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• The lights are on, but nobody's home.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• there's nobody waiting for you
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• It's not happening here, but it is happening now.
• I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
• I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• There is no god but God
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• Growing grapes is harder than making wine. You will discover this, but it might take a lifetime.
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• But thanks for playing
• But can you still cry like a child?
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• A few, but enough.
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I might not believe in God, but I sure as hell believe in the power of prayer
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• like you're blind but still can see
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• and my heart sings of cupboards opening by rainbow seashore but
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• 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.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• Zephronias is unfriendly to new noders, like, sometimes but not always. Depends on several astronomical variables
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• there are many voids but this one is mine
• Not really by the rules, but...
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• i carry a deep sadness of the past, perhaps always. but i am here for the present and the future. i am here for you.
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• 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.
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• A Confused Profusion of Media and Points of View that is Disparaging but Alludes
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Here in the dark, nothing is real but time
• I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• The nothin' but coal for you, geek e2 westside holiday gathering and lan party
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• You Might Think It's Sexual But Actually It's Not
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• Your bed is no longer here, but the windows are
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• but the fruitsellers are there every day
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.

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