Findings:

• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• 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 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
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• 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 a nice guy once
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• 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.
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• Finding air where matter once was
• I was in a commercial once
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen
• being a kid was great
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was once a Man
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• I was once young and had a home
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• I once was a clueless young noder
• Once there was a way...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• 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
• I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• 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
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• 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 bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• /but what was the question?
• 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 thought i was special, but it was you
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Where Once Life Was
• Leather-bound organizer
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• There once was a girl named Irene
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• every noder was once a normal human
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• Once was enough
• what once I was
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• I was adored once too
• Your husband was a great man
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Trompe
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• was
• It was a dark and stormy night
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• It was not a dream
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• But I have seen the sun just once
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• 'T was
• That was a joke, son.
• If Dr. Seuss Were a Tech Writer
• The day I realized what being alive was
• When I was your age
• Was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• God was created in man's image
• Just how perfect was Jesus?
• It was you, Atthis
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• The Walrus was Paul
• No shit, there I was
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
• "Oskee wee wee! Oskee wa wa!"
• And the sky was made of amethysts
• the seven hills of Rome
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• The world was designed for giant squid
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• It was all God's fault
• Theories as to what was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction
• Was Jesus resurrected as the Easter Bunny?
• Nobody cares if it was originally a nodeshell
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• Man was created in God's image
• We once played this same game, but with only our words
• Starve, but not for the glory of inner gods of determination
• Not all at once, but in a wave
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• Descartes was wrong
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• Kilroy was here
• Music was better in the old days
• wa
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• Was (Not Was)
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• Vancouver, Washington
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba

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