Findings:
- I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
- I married him because he was not mean
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- When I was young Time had no wings
- When I was young
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
- 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 he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- When I was Fair and Young
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- some say he was never here at all
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- He was found
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- man when you are telling me how it was
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
- Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
- Some time when I was a teenager
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
- Why I was convinced I would die young
- When I was your age
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- The sparkle of this angled blossoming was invading the Earth, and Vug said, "It's spring!" I kissed him.
- I was once young and had a home
- And When The Sky Was Opened
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- the magic that was meant to capture the outlaw instead transformed him into a monster
- The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows. Young as I was, I understood.
- 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.
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- When she was bad
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- 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.
- It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
- With him it was always like
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- I remember when all this was trees
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- all it cost him was a Penny
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- There was a rose that faded young
- I was a young boy that had big plans
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- When I Was a Boy
- At least he was gentle
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- A pocket-sized device with a single button that says, "Everything as it was one minute ago".
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
- When I was ten years old
- All he left her was alone
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- The Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- It was hard to say hello. It was even harder to say goodbye.
- The time a thug punched my friend in the face because he could
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- Tom, He was a Piper's Son
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- That's Just How He Was
- He Was Only Joking
- I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
- I was Chris to him
- When I Was A Baby
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- 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
- It was the tree that gave him away.
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
- he was a punk poet himself
- When I Was a Babe
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- You hit the nail on the head and the nail was directly above my heart
- 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 woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
- Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- He was hard in all the wrong places
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- Shaymus is older than I thought he was
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- Back when grunge was still cool
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- More than he was willing to give
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- There was a young lady of Riga
- I once was a clueless young noder
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When I Was a Lad
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- 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 we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- November 4, 1995
- Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- When touch was simple
- He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- It was 1992. He smiled.
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- He Was a Crook
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
- When I Was Cruel
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- 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.
- I was young and I needed the money
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- When I was five
- making certain he was touching her
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
- When I was 9
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- When Desire Was a Virtue
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