Findings:
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- All I wanted was a Pepsi
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There was a baby in China
- 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 time when I was a better person
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- more sure of all I thought was true
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- There was always the blue of you
- 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 moment of drunken silence
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
- No shit, there I was
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Before you, there was me
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Was There a Time
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
- There was a little girl
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- 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
- I remember, there was one
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- There was a young lady of Riga
- One hour there was sunlight
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
- There Was A Friend
- I was there
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- There was once a Man
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- There Was No Leak
- 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 time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- 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
- 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 rose that faded young
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- There was an old lady
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- There was a land where lived no violets
- Was it ever there?
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- and there was this girl
- Where's the kaboom?
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There was a cold day
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- There was a man and a woman
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- 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 before
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- 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 Once Was a Farmer
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- 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.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- There was no one waiting for me...
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- A knock there was upon the door
- 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.
- This wasn't how it was supposed to be
- wa
- we are already dead. this is all there is.
- Why was Cthulhu blue?
- Here lies one whose name was writ in water
- Able was I, ere I saw Elba
- What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
- It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
- the seven hills of Rome
- Kilroy was here
- 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.
- Descartes was wrong
- was
- The Walrus was Paul
- Vancouver, Washington
- Music was better in the old days
- Why I was convinced I would die young
- Was (Not Was)
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- middle of summer how crazy it was
- 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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