Findings:

• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• And Then There Were None
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• 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.
• But we're leaving St. Francis in the trunk of the car
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• So There We Were
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• That Was Then, This is Now
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• 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.
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• There was a young lady of Riga
• What if there were a war, and nobody came?
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There was a land where lived no violets
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• This was the way bodies were meant to behave
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• There was a little girl
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• Running a BBS
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• There were many who went in huddled procession
• There was a time before
• There Was A Friend
• There was a cold day
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was a baby in China
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Once there was a way...
• If there's hell below we're all going to go
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• you were an angel and i was an angel
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• No shit, there I was
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There were three young ladies of Birmingham
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
• If it was still then-
• When we were little kids, running
• 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
• Was it ever there?
• If there were no birds
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Was There a Time
• I was promised flying cars
• I was there
• There was no one waiting for me...
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There were times better than this
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Better to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow
• Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Were there civilian Transformers?
• no shit, there we were
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• There was always the blue of you
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• November 4, 1995
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
• I was into them after they were hip
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• I was told you were very pretty
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• There Was No Leak
• In unlit streets, running wild in the dark, creatures of the Void are seeking what was lost
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• Now and Then, Here and There
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• Where were you then?
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• it was true then
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• You were the flying car we were promised
• we didn't know then that we were making memories
• There was once a Man
• There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a rose that faded young
• Behave as if there were a God
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
• I remember, there was one
• Were there a god!
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Were there nine moons above your head? Were there none?
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• and there was this girl
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• There was a man and a woman
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
• Fossils were put there by God
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• 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 a man who lived a life of fire
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There were no clouds. I prayed for lightning.
• Before you, there was me
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There should be laws requiring electric cars to make the Jetsons flying car noise
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• A knock there was upon the door
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• One hour there was sunlight
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• One day we realized we were going to need a bigger car
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Running after cars
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday

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