Findings:
- I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
- I was into them after they were hip
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- I was told you were very pretty
- Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
- It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
- It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
- They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
- I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
- Was it Love, or Obsession?
- Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
- Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
- I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
- New Mexico, or was that Oklahoma?
- born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
- The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
- What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
- Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- With him it was always like
- Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
- drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
- Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
- The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
- Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
- Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter V
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter III
- And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
- This was the way bodies were meant to behave
- November 4, 1995
- I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
- Looks like 1984 was only n years off
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
- you were an angel and i was an angel
- Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- like nothing ever was
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IX
- Or were they chords of sun?
- An infallible way to discern whether a decade, in pop culture terms, was win or fail
- Was that real, or did I dream it?
- OR WAS IT
- I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
- It was better before they came
- The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- 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
- 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 expecting it to hurt like a fuck
- in the end it was better that we were apart
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
- I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
- If I was beautiful like you
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- What if architecture was like web design?
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
- seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
- My skin felt like I was falling
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- 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.
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VI
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IV
- Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VIII
- Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VII
- it was years before they met again, by chance
- scattering, like flower petals or crowds from the sound of a gunshot
- Good thing they were just typewriters
- It feels like fingernails across the moon. Or do you rub your wings together?
- They Will Burn like Streaks of Gasoline on a Lawn
- Gaily they went down in the lush field a treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a crust of bread into her coat of arms weaving currying the embroidering of silk in summer.
- They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
- Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
- The four problems of surgery, how they were overcome, and when
- i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
- Like white light? Or a long low moan that turns into laughing? Or the holes in Jesus' hands?
- It's not that we're more attractive in the darkness or that one of us may be drunk
- Did we listen to pop music because we were miserable? Or were we miserable because we listened to pop music?
- The ghosts of those words hung over us like clouds
- Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
- We must remember them or they cease to be.
- In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
- The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
- Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
- Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
- You grabbed my hand, and we fell into it. Like a daydream. Or a fever.
- I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
- I would love for you to come to me with Christmas lights around your head, late night like a ghost
- I like my breasts the way they are
- We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.
- like a flower or a mushroom or a guinea pig or a vine
- ghost like casper
- If there were more people like you, there would be more people
- stop garage sales (or why Joe Lieberman doesn't like video games)
- they seem each like a smile of great sweetness
- silent like a killer or a lover
- How to herd people in public
- They are in love with each other, or the city
- If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
- To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
- Cities: Skylines, or: This is a very 20th-century type of city we're building here
- Of course, they were wrong
- Treating registers as if they were variables
- "It gets better" or so they say.
- I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- They Were Eleven
- I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
- Before they were famous
- Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
- I have enthusiasm for everything that you like or are interested in!
- Since his eyes were like perfect packed suitcases
- Life, or something like it
- Or do we like time's children come also at last to the silent shadowlands?
- These lions were not like normal lions.
- serendipity, or something like it
- The fire in the sky, the fire in your hand, the sad songs without bodies, surrounding us like ghosts
- It's a beautiful life, or something like it
- Her eyes were gray like a storm, and even more dangerous
- Yourself or Someone Like You
- some summers they drop like flies
- I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
- The truth, or something like it
- Kid named John, or something like that.
- In this workshop we'll cover skills like setting up and configuring a terrible howl or shriek.
- She just stares at us like we're crazy
- we're all ready to break. has it always been like this?
- We don't have time. Not like they do.
- Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
- Is there any part of you that really wants this? Or is the pursuit like breathing to you?
- magic is real and it's nothing like what they say
- speak to me, long-dead sage; tell me what your afternoons were like
- I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
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