Findings:
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- 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 time when I was a better person
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- When she was bad
- Where's the kaboom?
- Once there was a way...
- When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- When I Was a Lad
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- I'll get there when I get there
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- November 4, 1995
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- One hour there was sunlight
- I was there
- There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
- When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
- and i just want to be there when the lightning strikes
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- There are words. When new ideas confront us, we create new words. We forget that there are no words.
- I remember, there was one
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- When I was Fair and Young
- When I was young Time had no wings
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- I remember when all this was trees
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- When I Was A Baby
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- 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.
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There Once Was a Farmer
- There was a cold day
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- 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.
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was an old lady
- 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 is a special kind of loneliness when you are not where your mind is
- There Was No Leak
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- There Are Days When I Leave My Life Next to My Black Boots
- There was a rose that faded young
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- When over 95% of its people endure unspeakable torture daily, Planet Earth is officially known as a prison
- 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 Born for the 7th Time
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When I was ten years old
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- When I Was Cruel
- When I was young
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- man when you are telling me how it was
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- When I Was a Babe
- I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
- When I was 9
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- Was it ever there?
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There are times when they seem to be right
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- and there was this girl
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There was a man and a woman
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Was There a Time
- There was a time before
- Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
- 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
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- When true love dies, there are no paparazzi
- A knock there was upon the door
- There Was A Friend
- Before you, there was me
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
- When I stop going there, I will be well.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- There was no one waiting for me...
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- There was always the blue of you
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
- remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- When I was your age
- Back when grunge was still cool
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a little girl
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- There was once a Man
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- When touch was simple
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When I Was a Boy
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- When I was five
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- No shit, there I was
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