Findings:

• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• when the truth walks away, everybody stays
• When Grandmother was finished with us
• When I Was Cruel
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• When I Was A Baby
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• When Father Rode the Goat
• I Was On My Way Home When the Strangest Thing Happened
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• The queen of hearts and the queen of spades are the best of friends when the kings are away
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• When I Was a Babe
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• 'cause when you try to make it stay, that's when it surely slips away
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• When I was five
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
• when was the last time you experienced something you didn't think was possible?
• when my father cries
• When I was your age
• it's hard to turn away when it feels like she's singing directly to you
• When I Was a Boy
• November 4, 1995
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• 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.
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• When I was Fair and Young
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• 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
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• New Business: Giving Away Freebies
• You know you've been away from home too long
• When I was 9
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• I was a father for a few days
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• When our word was iron
• When the boss is away...
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• I Thought My Father Was God
• Why I hate when my father tinkers with the computer, and why you should too
• Eye contact at a distance
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• if you fear spells, look away when she decides to share her hair with the wind.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Back when grunge was still cool
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• When touch was simple
• When I Was a Lad
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• I miss you when you're away. Please go.
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• When I was ten years old
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• When she was bad
• When I was young Time had no wings
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• My purity was little stickers I willingly gave away in exchange for hearts
• 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.
• Back when our blood was still warm
• When I was young
• man when you are telling me how it was
• I remember when all this was trees
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• Some time when I was a teenager
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• This was not my going away party
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• I cried when he threw away the paper towel on top of the microwave
• It was the tree that gave him away.
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• when it was done
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Why big businesses give prizes away
• take me away
• away
• Go Away
• A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
• /away
• The one that got away
• There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
• Does this ever go away?
• Pack away
• Why do all the pretty things always run away from me?
• What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away
• she turns and smiles, then walks away
• Sunday Too Far Away
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• When in doubt, shoot the wizard
• The Songs That Got Away
• I put away childish things, like myself
• How to lie and get away with it
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• The first and last time I threw away all my secular music
• Far, Far Away
• Throw away your fucking scale!
• Women you know you should just walk away from
• Put Away
• run away
• talking can only give you away
• keep the depression away
• Cast Away
• Faraway, So Close!
• Keep guns away from drunks
• Far away from home
• Fly Away (user)
• Cheap tricks parents try to get away with
• Step away from the fridge, lardass!
• Away to me
• Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
• Everyone has a sofa to give away at some point in their lives
• The server giveth, and the server taketh away
• First Christmas Away From Home
• Soon, I will run... but not away
• Walking Away
• Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves
• Haul Away Joe
• Heaven is High and the Emperor is Far Away
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• Don't Go Away
• Moving Away
• Heave Away, Me Johnnies
• Waiting for the tear gas in my room to fade away so i can sleep
• All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
• wasting away

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