Findings:

• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• All I wanted was a Pepsi
• 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 once was a chicken named Alice
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• There Was No Leak
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• more sure of all I thought was true
• 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
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• It was fall, and fall does strange things to us all
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• One hour there was sunlight
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Once there was a way...
• There was a baby in China
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• Wondered what the point of all of that was
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Where's the kaboom?
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• No shit, there I was
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a time before
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• 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 a cold day
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was a little girl
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• There was always the blue of you
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Freud was wrong. Freud is dead. That is all.
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
• All he left her was alone
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• I remember when all this was trees
• He was hard in all the wrong places
• some say he was never here at all
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• all it cost him was a Penny
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was once a Man
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Was it ever there?
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• 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 Was a Man of Double Deed
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• Was There a Time
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• I was there
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• and there was this girl
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• A knock there was upon the door
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was A Friend
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• there is a place where the dead live. it is in us. it is all around us. it is more than we can understand.
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• Descartes was wrong
• we are already dead. this is all there is.
• was
• Was (Not Was)
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• Vancouver, Washington
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Music was better in the old days
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• An open letter to all the lousy fathers out there
• There is plenty of room for all God's creatures
• There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
• There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
• The Walrus was Paul
• Kilroy was here
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• the seven hills of Rome
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• In any world in which i was your friend for even a day, i am grateful.
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• wa
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• If there's hell below we're all going to go
• there is no weight that can bury us beneath the ghost of all my guilt
• it's there for all to see, and yet some people never see it
• there isn't another side. it's all right here.
• Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks

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