Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "the tails of little birds trying to roost on some scraggy thorn were blown inside-out like umbrellas"

• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• I thought paper cuts were like lightning
• let us not lift our voices and speak like we are little girls
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• Getting an education at MIT is like trying to take a drink from a firehose
• speak to me, long-dead sage; tell me what your afternoons were like
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• acting a little like my mom
• we're just trying to figure out what it all means
• We're trying to have a baby
• It's like trying to describe colors to a person who's blind
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• The loneliness of migrant threshermen and those poor souls forced by fate to seafaring slept under the loveseat; little Jenna smiled at its tail cat-like aquiver
• I'm trying to see little old ladies as versions of my mom; it helps me be a better person
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen pine cone
• If I were Twenty-One I would make some permanent, amicable arrangement with my conscience
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• I'd like some dreams too
• Her eyes were gray like a storm, and even more dangerous
• Some lovers (like the old you and I) never experience love at all
• Some days it seems like the sun is landing on the earth
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• He Never Told Me My Eyes Were Like Diamonds
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• little paper umbrella
• some boys need a little more attention
• You look so cute with your little whiskers and your bald tail and ow, ow, that's my fingernail!
• Trying to remember what love felt like
• sometimes it feels like the world is trying to tell me to wake up
• If the real world were like the internet
• Some That Were Yellow
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• Holding up a mirror to a little bird is mean
• Some needlessly emo poetry trying desperately hard to make a pun midway through
• Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak
• The Little Bird
• Some Like It Hot
• Since his eyes were like perfect packed suitcases
• This pleasant tale is like a little copse
• We would like to apologize to the following people and stick in some amusing messages
• Kisses on my shoulder like little stars sparkling
• Dude, check me out. I'm like a little otter, a sexy little otter!
• some summers they drop like flies
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• I could use some new habits, like holding you
• Three little birds in a row
• These lions were not like normal lions.
• Some like it in the pot, nine days old
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• we're all ready to break. has it always been like this?
• Dude, check me out. I'm like a little auditor, a sexy little auditor!
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• Today your little boy is sprouting ten fingers and shedding his tail
• I would like to see your little bits
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• Some other little thing
• When You Were Little Did You Wonder
• When we were little kids, running
• She just stares at us like we're crazy
• My Fine Feathered Friends, chapter 8: In Which We Meet an Odd Little Bird
• We're not trying to fool one another, honestly. We're trying to fool ourselves. Please forgive us.
• The Thorn Birds
• As if that were possible, and oh the bitter-sweetness of trying
• trying to complete some archaic sub-quest, only to be drawn into some stupid battle every five steps
• If there were no birds
• Some things dannye taught me without trying
• The Three Little Birds
• My heart is like a bird in the wounded night
• Tenchi, go get some more *hic* TEA!
• the birds seem to know what we're up to out here.
• The little bird sings a big song
• bird
• The Mynah Birds
• Mutton birds
• King of Birds
• Ant bird
• Baltimore bird
• Bird cherry
• Bird of paradise
• Bird pepper
• Bird's nest
• Bower bird
• Lyre bird
• Mallee bird
• Mino bird
• Peabody bird
• Sea bird
• Water bird
• Wheatsel bird
• Whidah bird
• Whydah bird
• Widow bird
• The Cat and the Birds
• Noises made by birds in different languages
• Surfin' Bird
• We were Rome once
• The Painted Bird
• Birds of a Feather
• Everyone has a dead bird story
• pikka bird
• To the Man-of-War Bird
• Bridge of Birds
• Cordwainer Bird
• Birds, Bags, Bears, and Buns
• The Birds and the Bees
• Why are statues covered more thoroughly with bird shit than the other places in cities?
• Collections of Birds
• A dead bird and a drunken father
• Geezer bird
• Names for groups of birds
• The frozen north will hatch a flightless bird
• Green Bird
• As Birds bring forth the Sun
• Why Do Birds Sing?
• The Birds
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Birds of America
• Stymphalian Birds
• Whence Comes This Rush Of Wings? (Carol of the Birds)
• Yellow Bird
• frigate bird
• Birds (user)
• The First Birds and the First Mammals
• The Bird of the Difficult Eye
• Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
• White Bird
• First Fiction: Birds
• Larry Bird Exception
• bird repellant
• These are the days when birds come back
• Bird shit on your head
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• Sweet Bird of Youth
• Early Bird
• Conversation overheard between birds
• I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
• Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• My birds are cartoon characters
• Birds of Rhiannon
• Squished tubers and dead bird: An orphans' Thanksgiving
• You gave me wings when you showed me the birds
• The Secret Language of Birds
• Acid Bird
• secretary bird
• The Boy and The Birds
• The golden Bird
• The Mouse, The Bird and the Sausage
• For the Birds
• The Golden Bird: Part Two
• How to make a pine cone bird feeder
• porno bird (user)
• Early Bird Exception
• God gave a loaf to every bird
• squirt the bird
• bird bath
• Bird's opening
• Birds of Prey
• The boy who did not understand the language of the birds
• Nighttime Birds
• Kee Bird
• Quetzal Birds in Love
• impossible birds
• Australian birds
• The Gertrude Bird
• bird (user)
• Boatswain bird
• Big Bird in Japan
• The Romans kept birds as companions
• The Dinkey Bird

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