Findings:

• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• 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 21, he was building a Time Machine
• My skin felt like I was falling
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• I once was a clueless young noder
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• When I Was A Baby
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• When I was your age
• I was adored once too
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• Back when our blood was still warm
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• When I was 9
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• November 4, 1995
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• When touch was simple
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Back when grunge was still cool
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• Leather-bound organizer
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• When I was Fair and Young
• Finding air where matter once was
• Dumb laws
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• Once there was a way...
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• man when you are telling me how it was
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• more sure of all I thought was true
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• 'T Was Such a Little, Little Boat
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• Looks like 1984 was only n years off
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• When I was five
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• There once was a girl named Irene
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• I was once young and had a home
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• When I was ten years old
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• what once I was
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• The teachers thought I was insane
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
• I Thought My Father Was God
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• 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.
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• I Thought I Was A Child
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• 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.
• I thought that what I was taught was true.
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• If I was beautiful like you
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• There was a time when I was a better person
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• When I Was a Lad
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• When I Was a Boy
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• That week with her was like drinking bubbles
• 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.
• With him it was always like
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• What if architecture was like web design?
• seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• like nothing ever was
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
• When I was young
• When I Was Cruel
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• There was once a Man
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• When she was bad
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I was in a commercial once
• I was a nice guy once
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• Where Once Life Was
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Once was enough
• 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 was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• every noder was once a normal human

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