Findings:
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- One hour there was sunlight
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- There was a cold day
- There was a time when I was a better person
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- and there was this girl
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There was a young lady of Riga
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There Was A Friend
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There was a time before
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- The Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- I married him because he was not mean
- There was a rose that faded young
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- Was it ever there?
- Was There a Time
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was an old lady
- Once there was a way...
- There was always the blue of you
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- There Was No Leak
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- There was once a Man
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- Where's the kaboom?
- I remember, there was one
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- No shit, there I was
- There was a man and a woman
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- There Once Was a Farmer
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- Before you, there was me
- 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 at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- There was no one waiting for me...
- A knock there was upon the door
- I was there
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
- There was a baby in China
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- there aren't any stars because we haven't created them yet
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There was a little girl
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- we are starving because we are afraid of our own hearts, and there must be another way
- coming home and the lights are on because someone's there
- Don't Sit Next to Me Just Because I'm Asian
- Because I dig you
- Because I say so
- Just because you should do something doesn't mean you can
- I realize that just because I like something a lot, it doesn't mean it is of high quality
- Just because you both have the same problem does not mean you are one another's solution
- I care because you do
- Because it's wrong
- I lost a chance at $40,000 because my mommy wouldn't let me sell my stock
- Just because Linux is Free doesn't mean Linux Software has to be Free
- Because that would make sense
- Don't assume that just because I'm gay, all I want is sex
- If my mom doesn't let me play the violin because it's gay then ...
- time lost in life because of waiting
- Just because it's Usenet is no excuse to forget how to punctuate
- We smoke cloves because we can
- Because I needed to hear you over the noise
- I Like Bananas Because They've Got No Bones
- I'm a cynical bastard because I care so much, dammit
- Aliens look like aliens because they're human
- because it wasn't just the air
- No one asks me if I'm a Satanist or anything because I take the precaution of wearing a predominantly flannel and hawaiian shirt-oriented wardrobe
- because I love skating bears
- I Had No Time to Hate, Because
- Because the suburbs lacked the proper elevation
- Because I love you
- Just because I like ballet it doesn't mean I'm a poof
- The time a thug punched my friend in the face because he could
- Death is the saddest thing in the world, because life is the most beautiful
- Because: Context is not important. Because: My life is one long series of contexts.
- Because it is bitter and because it is my heart
- Shrug (Because of Me and You)
- Pity me not because the light of day
- in spite (or perhaps because) of
- They hate us because we're wonderful
- Because we are all real people, and none of us is innocent
- I do it because it hurts, and then even that is over
- Because I couldn't
- Because he feared the turn of seasons
- Because, you think, Maybe They Are Delicious.
- It’s not because of your unconventional ideas about sex. It’s because you’re fat.
- Because the gods that made them are gods no more
- I don't shiver because I'm cold. I shiver because you are.
- Because, not in spite of
- Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
- Up, because the sky has room for us and more than we can ever make
- I refuse to panic just because she's happy.
- I give blood because I've got it on my hands.
- Because I lived in Paradise
- You cherish this box because it once held your dreams
- just because you've forgotten doesn't mean that you're forgiven
- It's easier to kick a praying man, because he's on his knees already
- I ran from Iran because I slam Islam
- I say yes, because I believe in sailboats
- or because we are all Supermen living in the city of the future
- We love foxes because we killed the wolves
- We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
- Just because she's nice to you doesn't mean she wants to fuck you
- When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Ignoring a leak because it's on the other side of the boat
- Just because I'm nice to her doesn't mean I want to fuck her
- Because I do not want to forget
- because I have given up any care
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- because death is just so full, and man so small
- Did we listen to pop music because we were miserable? Or were we miserable because we listened to pop music?
- because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from)
- It's funny because it's you
- because eventually you will see past my magical words and focus once again on the matter at hand
- A sad reminder that just because you are floating does not mean you are rising
- I can't get a haircut today because I have too much free time
- I shiver because I think you make my bones glow.
- Because she is unchanging, you are crazy
- She had incongruity for breakfast because she felt like it
- Important mainly because of the people in the conversation.
- I Can't Speak Because I'm Drowning In My Thoughts.
- Two Things I am Compelled to Support because of One Thing I Strongly Believe In
- Humans exist only because opposites exist
- I reject evolution because it's heteronormative.
- beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
- because it represents, better yet, it is
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