Findings:

• There once was a girl named Irene
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Before you, there was me
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• No shit, there I was
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There was always the blue of you
• There was a time before
• Was There a Time
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was a little girl
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was once a Man
• Where's the kaboom?
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a man and a woman
• and there was this girl
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There Was A Friend
• There Was No Leak
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• I was there
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a young lady of Riga
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There Once Was a Farmer
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a cold day
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Was it ever there?
• 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.
• A knock there was upon the door
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was a baby in China
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• I remember, there was one
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• Once there was a way...
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Who's There?
• You can't get there from here
• Do or do not, there is no try
• IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• What danger is there in cussing?
• There is only ONE God
• You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.
• Like there's no tomorrow
• Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?
• The more you eat, the more there are
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"
• Is That All There Is?
• There is no friend anywhere
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• Are we there yet?
• There are no atheists in the foxholes
• There is no such thing as a free lunch
• there's a spider in my keyboard
• There is Power in a Union
• There I stood, rambling incoherently into the tin can, you loved it
• Being There
• Hang in there
• there is no existing mythology
• How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
• Is there anybody out there?
• There are no transitional fossils
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• There's a sucker born every minute
• There's an alien in your bag
• There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
• all the cute guys will be there
• There is no strategy in StarCraft
• There's a story behind it
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• The more laws there are, the more crime there is
• There is only one electron
• Getting rid of start menu items
• At Least There is Racing
• there's good and bad in being a database administrator
• Why there hasn't been much hooliganism in holland during Euro2000
• Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
• The Party Over There
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• there's water on Mars!
• Be a problematic duck over there
• there is more breeze in the suburbs of the South
• For every set there exists a larger set
• There All the Honor Lies
• There's no such thing as normal
• Pop music is irrefutable proof that there is in fact a Hell
• You weren't there
• There are as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are in the set of all real numbers
• There is something about airports and bus terminals
• There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
• There is no good depression. It's not sexy. It's not fun. It's not the new rock and roll.
• There are no three letter .coms left
• Is There Something About Bangkok I Should Maybe Know About?
• There are other things I haven't told you yet
• There will be nobody there to shed a tear
• There are no facts
• There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• There's always a catch!
• There will be time
• There's nothing harder than learning how to receive.
• Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
• Without religion, there is no God
• There Is No Lumber Cartel
• Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncy
• There is no "Judeo Christian" ethic
• there is very little that all christians would agree on
• Most of the time I just sit there, waiting.
• There and Now - Live in Vancouver 1968
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• There with you
• There are no good contraceptives
• There are no seasons in California

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