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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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