Findings:

• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• No shit, there I was
• I was there
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Was it ever there?
• There was no one waiting for me...
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a rose that faded young
• and there was this girl
• That Was Then, This is Now
• There was a time before
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There was a little girl
• why the Cold War was a stupid idea
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• There was an old lady
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• 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 cold day
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was once a Man
• And Then There Were None
• Before you, there was me
• There Was No Leak
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• A knock there was upon the door
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• 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
• We did not know it was a war
• there is a great war between abstraction and the concrete reality
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There Was A Friend
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• Now and Then, Here and There
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a young lady of Riga
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• I remember, there was one
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• 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.
• What if there were a war, and nobody came?
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Was There a Time
• One hour there was sunlight
• There Once Was a Farmer
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• it was true then
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There is no terrorism. There is only war.
• There was a man and a woman
• Where's the kaboom?
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• 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 baby in China
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• 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 a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• As this was my generation's war
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• If it was still then-
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• and then a miracle occurs
• What's it going to be then, eh?
• Every Now and Then
• And then I crawled out from under the table
• Everything you wanted to know about hamsters, and then some!
• How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
• Life sucks, then you die
• And then I will just slip away
• What time do you call this, then?
• Fun for 2 years as a little kid, school for 16 or 20 years, then work until you die.
• Trail your finger through the air, and then tell me you can't feel it
• Frowning on external links, then smiling, then bouncing them a little
• If the only sexual organ you have is a penis then everything looks like a vagina
• What it is like to go without and then, to not, even in a small way
• Laughter reaction to acting abusively
• coffee, then wine
• Hope Then Strife
• If my mom doesn't let me play the violin because it's gay then ...
• and then i drew some words for you
• And then, she expressed frustration with life in general
• More than a mouthful is a waste
• Syphilis - Then and Now
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• and then I woke up
• 'Tis better to die as a lion than to live 1000 years as a dog
• I felt a disturbance in the fun, as if a million playgrounds cried out, and then
• and then his words silenced my noisy thought
• The fortune cookie more accurate than Miss Cleo's Tarot cards
• And then we start to talk
• And then all that we receive
• If you tolerate this piss then your bitter will be next
• And then a terrible silence
• Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs
• And then the rain of colorless fire
• Cease, then, being Emperor
• Learn to Program: If/Then
• Now and Then : From Coney Island to Here
• First the music, then the fire
• Are you a sexist pig? Then buy our booze!
• You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes
• then the terrorists win
• How can one ever go home? Bangkok, Tokyo, Chicago, then Cleveland
• I still miss you, now and then. You'll never know.
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• First compress it, then encrypt it
• Baltimore Then and Now
• The air full of ice and electricity, and then the sky went green and the air raid sirens went off
• If You Can't See My Mirrors (Then I Can't See You)
• I do it because it hurts, and then even that is over
• If class conflict is inherent to society, then so too is revolution
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• The Psychological and Spiritual Necessity to view Christ as man and then God
• Patty Wars
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• If a service is "free," then YOU are the product being sold.
• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• a wound is at first nothing, and then pain, and then blood

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