Findings:

• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• We did not know it was a war
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• I was aghast, yet intrigued
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• 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.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• 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.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• 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.
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• /but what was the question?
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• If over the hills was someplace new and forgotten
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• How the West Was Won
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• Sugar and shit in the same bag; she lost the battle but is winning the war
• Yet the sea was hardly bothered, and the stars remained untouched
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• As this was my generation's war
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• why the Cold War was a stupid idea
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• 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
• Where the floodwaters went after the flood was over
• the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a schoolbook in County Derry
• 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
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• Battle Ground, Washington
• It was not a dream
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• Temporary Insanity, or The Weekend Is Not Over Yet (document)
• I was looking for you
• Marilyn Monroe was a size 16
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• Trompe
• Was Jesus resurrected as the Easter Bunny?
• Dawn was a lucky time to give birth
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• Butt Wars
• I Think I'm a Pervert, But I'm Totally Over It
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• The Walrus was Paul
• Kilroy was here
• tracing over history not yet in the past
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• And the sky was made of amethysts
• It was you, Atthis
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• If Dr. Seuss Were a Tech Writer
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• Cybersex before it was cool
• Nobody cares if it was originally a nodeshell
• It was all God's fault
• I was searching glass
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• This product was tested on cute, furry animals with big, sad eyes
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• Was (Not Was)
• Vancouver, Washington
• Descartes was wrong
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• wa
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• There was once a Man
• When I was your age
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• 'T was
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• The day I realized what being alive was
• Theories as to what was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction
• The world was designed for giant squid
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• Was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
• I was going to marry Marty
• hodgepodge was just a one-night stand, apparently
• God was created in man's image
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• I Hear it was Charged Against Me
• Battles of World War I
• Back when grunge was still cool
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• There was a young lady of Riga
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• Just how perfect was Jesus?
• Battle of Midway
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• Apple may have bought NeXT, but NeXT took over Apple
• My fingers flow over a keyboard, but words jumble at my teeth
• A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• War is hell but men like it
• I've got nifty things to do in September but it's not September yet.
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• was
• Trump Lost, Biden Won. Get over it.
• Music was better in the old days
• the seven hills of Rome
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• "Oskee wee wee! Oskee wa wa!"
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• No shit, there I was
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• That was a joke, son.
• It was a dark and stormy night
• The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
• Man was created in God's image
• A poem I wrote when I was 5

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