Findings:

• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• She dumped me when she found out I'd been faking my Scottish accent
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• This is what happens, son, when you let your wife's green lung get out of hand
• When she sleeps, is she not moving her legs aside for an unknown garrison?
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• When she was bad
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
• and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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.
• She was coming out as he was going in.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
• I cried when he threw away the paper towel on top of the microwave
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• What to do when a roommate moves out
• The day I found out I was a guy
• Cool Hand Luke
• She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
• He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
• Even your mother will probably bite your tree hand when you destroy all gravity
• When you make your own mother cry you know you've fucked up
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• You know you're blacked out when...
• Somewhere Out There
• What the hell was she thinking?
• She was steady
• sometimes, after an adventure, he likes to sit out there and think
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• What you're doing, it's important. And you're the only one out there doing it.
• I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long
• when my father cries
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• So while Faust is busy trying to wipe the blood off his face and Shorty's trying to claw his eyes out, I mosey away and try my hand at storming the castle
• When I tell stories about you I have to use my hands
• Sometimes the apathy she saw made her want to curl up and cry
• when in doubt run it out
• She does not take her trip. She does not shout out loud.
• Cybersex before it was cool
• Cool! Now hand me the sandwich Luke.
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they cut it out
• It's dark and scary out there. The night can avenge itself.
• Somewhere, there's a universe with your name on it, spelled out in consecutive constellations
• When in doubt, throw it out
• Cry Out in the Darkness
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• She was locked in time
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• She Sleeps
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• The glass is half full when it comes to your life up until this point. The glass is half empty when it comes to everything you've missed out on.
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• She is stupidly keeping herself a secret, when I know she has sparkly things to show me
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• His face when she fell
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• alive she cried (user)
• you look so broken when you cry
• cry it out
• It was all I could do not to cry
• What you should REALLY do when you have too many votes on your hands.
• She handed me my first sharpened pencil.
• That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
• hold my hand when i cannot see
• There is probably a better explanation than the insidious hand of Big Stall
• You put a hand on her hip, she permits it.
• Why women suddenly come out of the woodwork when a man gets married
• When all the stars go out at night
• When my inside selves just jump out with wings of fire
• Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars
• Out There Live
• When you blow out like a dead star
• Is she really going out with him?
• when scalding water starts spraying out of your shower's hot water knob
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
• Spinning shapes like a song out of order. In the dark she can see fireflies.
• She went out through the bathroom window
• Is anyone out there?
• There is a family in me somewhere and some days it tries to tickle its way out.
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• when we drill a hole in the sky, what will run out?
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
• Where do they go when they walk out and leave the body behind?
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• She just sat there
• She was very beautiful. Y'know?
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• She grew a little older, while he was telling her
• She was so pleased to learn that she was right
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
• And when she turned into a man, we were so proud
• The child, she cannot sleep
• She always was devious in her beauty
• She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
• She will remember your heart when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• There's no "proper" way to cry politely in public
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• when doves cry (user)
• There is nothing left to cry about
• When grown men cry
• The feeling you get when you hold someone's hand
• You're pretty when you cry
• Why I cry when I hear
• It's so easy to say you cried yourself to sleep. It's so hard to do.
• I want to put my hands there too
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• She didn't wave goodbye so much as slightly raise her hand
• She left me on the boardwalk with my head held in my hands.
• The first beat down handed out in the Senate
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• Hand them a straw, and they'll suck the life out of you.
• drop the bass and come out with your hands up
• out there
• My hands on her back; slipping into sleep
• Her hands on my back; slipping into sleep
• The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
• Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out
• Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
• I was so cool, that first afternoon
• There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
• She threw out all my letters
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• How I found out there wasn't a Santa Claus
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• Anybody Out There?
• I wanna see it when you find out what comets, stars and moons are all about
• Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• An open letter to all the lousy fathers out there
• There are a million girls like me out there
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• When you're born with duckweed in your hair, it never washes out
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they pour it out
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• Are You Out There?
• And as the dreaming was danced, a sound went out
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• When my ten year old niece found out about masturbation
• At time's end we step out of the corn into the cool shadows of the lawn
• Is there anybody out there?
• The best way to learn something is when someone else figures it out and tells you.
• Outside she reads, outside she is reading the evacuation procedure, out loud
• when i get out i'll come and find you cause you're my other half i never told you that
• There is a chip out of this blue mug
• It turns out there are lots of badasses out there flipping coins.
• Choosing bitterness is taking the easy way out. It's so easy to feel bitter when you've been hurt. Path of least resistence. Forgiveness is a path that goes in a very different direction.
• 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
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• She just appeared out of nowhere

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