Findings:
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- 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
- Back when our blood was still warm
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- I was very, very drunk
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
- All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
- Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- I was told you were very pretty
- Sex with the Stewards of Gondor was always very lame
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- His ex-wife was so frigid, her clitoris was only the tip of the iceberg.
- I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
- why the Cold War was a stupid idea
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- I was sure it was her
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- It was not death, for I stood up
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- When I was ten years old
- I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
- In the Gym the Floor Was Cold
- Choosing bitterness is taking the easy way out. It's so easy to feel bitter when you've been hurt. Path of least resistence. Forgiveness is a path that goes in a very different direction.
- When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
- Her hair was seaweed and the Pacific wind sang
- Despite her station, the quarry was never alone
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- 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.
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- All he left her was alone
- Back when grunge was still cool
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- Her name was Natalie
- I don't think the sun was up
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- When I was Fair and Young
- When I was young
- Her sleeves ride up on her arms when she moves
- making certain he was touching her
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- When I was five
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- When I was 9
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- When We Were Very Young
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- It Was Cold, and It Ran Through Your Fingers
- 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.
- The glass is half full when it comes to your life up until this point. The glass is half empty when it comes to everything you've missed out on.
- Trying to keep up with technology, when the quiet full moon is momentarily more than enough
- How I almost got shot all up full of holes
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
- When I Was a Lad
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
- When I was young Time had no wings
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- When I Was Cruel
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- man when you are telling me how it was
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- When I Was a Babe
- When I Was A Baby
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- I woke up and thought it was Saturday
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
- as the red star rises, blood and carnage and her slow ascent follows
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- I'll give up printf() when you pry my cold dead fingers from it
- It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
- You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
- So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
- At that time I was taken up with alchemy
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
- so fragile and cold, i was
- There was a cold day
- You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
- His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
- The conglomerate loves with the full force of a thousand entities. We take this very seriously.
- I woke up and was an instant scribbling fiend. crazy, my poor feverish brain
- The Blood Was Everywhere
- I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
- 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 I was your age
- She opened her eyes and spoke in a very normal voice, just as if she were sane
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- November 4, 1995
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- 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.
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- When I Was a Boy
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- There was a time when I was a better person
- I laughed until my limbic system exploded...then got very scared
- If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- When touch was simple
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- When she was bad
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- She always was devious in her beauty
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
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