Findings:

• 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.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There was always the blue of you
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There was an old lady
• When I was five
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• When I Was a Babe
• 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 Born for the 7th Time
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When I Was a Boy
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• Back when our blood was still warm
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• 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
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• 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
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Was it ever there?
• There was a man and a woman
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• There was a little girl
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• There Was No Leak
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• When I was 9
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• man when you are telling me how it was
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• It was always hot here
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• Back when grunge was still cool
• This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• No shit, there I was
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• When I was ten years old
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• Sex with my sister was always really, really good
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• When I Was Cruel
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a cold day
• Was There a Time
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• I was there
• Before you, there was me
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• It was always about words
• Last year was always better
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Once there was a way...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• When I Was A Baby
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• There was no one waiting for me...
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• Dome 27 Was Always the Coldest
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• November 4, 1995
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• Sex with the Stewards of Gondor was always very lame
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• When I was your age
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• 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.
• When I was young
• When touch was simple
• the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was once a Man
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• When I Was a Lad
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• I remember, there was one
• She always was devious in her beauty
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• and there was this girl
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• There was a rose that faded young
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• When I was Fair and Young
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• One hour there was sunlight
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was a time before
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• When she was bad
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There Once Was a Farmer
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• With him it was always like
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• There was a baby in China
• A knock there was upon the door
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was A Friend
• A poem I wrote when I was 5

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