Findings:

• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was once a Man
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Once there was a way...
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There Was A Friend
• Where's the kaboom?
• No shit, there I was
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• I was there
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a rose that faded young
• Finding air where matter once was
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a time before
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a land where lived no violets
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• There was a baby in China
• There was no one waiting for me...
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• Before you, there was me
• Once was enough
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• what once I was
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• There was a young lady of Riga
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• I once was a clueless young noder
• Leather-bound organizer
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There was a little girl
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• 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.
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• Where Once Life Was
• I was in a commercial once
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• Once there came a man
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I was a nice guy once
• There was a time when I was a better person
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• and there was this girl
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• 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!
• Was it ever there?
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a man and a woman
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was a cold day
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Was There a Time
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• I remember, there was one
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• A knock there was upon the door
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There Was No Leak
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• 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
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• I was once young and had a home
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• every noder was once a normal human
• I was adored once too
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• /.
• Where people go when people die
• ..
• ./configure
• I Love You ... I'll Kill You
• What we do in life... echoes in eternity
• . o O
• . -. - .-. --- .--. -.--
• Some thoughts on snow and other skyborne frozen particulates . . .
• ". . ."
• Just to Get it Out . . .
• Once in a blue moon
• Once in a while
• Once On This Island
• disc at once
• once removed
• Indiana once tried to change the value of pi
• If I told you once
• Once I Pass'd Through a Populous City
• Once a Thief
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• Once JPEG, always JPEG
• Once every thousand years a little bird comes to this rock to sharpen its beak
• The one he murdered once still loves him
• Once more into the wild blue
• Once a Child
• Once and only once
• Once and only once is not just for code
• kiss once again, and part
• I once had a cavity
• She kissed me gently, just once, then walked away crying
• Did you once stand before me without shame?
• Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string
• Death has entered my life once more
• Once Upon a Time in America
• Do You Remember Once...
• I dreamed you were a god once
• Once Upon a Time in China
• A learned man came to me once
• A once passing chill through my body
• Six Emperors At The Same Time II
• Six Emperors At The Same Time III
• Once bitten twice shy
• Once upon a pair of wheels
• at once so warm and so insignificant.
• What were you expecting? Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop.
• Once upon a place called home
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• He climbed on top the fallen ruins of the once tall and proud buildings
• once the coldest roads all led back to the same warm place
• once more
• I might have, once.
• And I wept, remembering that such beauty had once existed everywhere
• your name, once I wake up
• like all the world is beautiful at once
• Victor Burczyki, a man who once bought me a beer and told me this story

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