Findings:
- just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
- 2016 was bad enough. Is it only going to get worse?
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- it was true then
- they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
- 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
- (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- I was into them after they were hip
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- Were you really expecting to only learn true things when you signed up for this class?
- and the moment we said we're not giving up is the moment we knew we'd never stop
- I didn't want to know where I was conceived
- It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
- Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
- more sure of all I thought was true
- I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
- I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- For cold caves know; The moon's seeing the mad and dead
- The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
- If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
- We did not know it was a war
- I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
- That Was Then, This is Now
- I woke up and was an instant scribbling fiend. crazy, my poor feverish brain
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- This was the way bodies were meant to behave
- Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
- And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
- Death was a part of me then, too.
- The one thing Superman was bad at
- 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 Revolution was Postponed Because of Rain
- Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- They hate us because we're wonderful
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- If you EVER come across an empty floor, just know that I'm gonna fuck you up.
- I don't think the sun was up
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- Thumbs Up going down
- Son, do you know how fast you were going?
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- Life sucks, then you die, then you come back
- No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
- I don't think we're old enough to know if we're alcoholics at our age
- If I was beautiful, I'd know it
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
- I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
- The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
- This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
- Back when grunge was still cool
- I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- The strangeness of seeing another car on a late night back road
- I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
- It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
- The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
- Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
- I woke up and thought it was Saturday
- It was not death, for I stood up
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
- I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- At that time I was taken up with alchemy
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- November 4, 1995
- Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
- in the end it was better that we were apart
- they might come up here and shoot us all
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- The mites go up and the tights come down
- The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
- 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 better before they came
- I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
- 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 was going to marry Marty
- Once was enough
- The "WE'RE GOING DOWN THE PUB!" Anglo-Swiss Post-nuptial London Meetup
- This was not my going away party
- As I Was Going to St Ives
- The World Was Wide Enough
- To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
- what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
- You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Someday my life will be interesting, and I will come back and tell you about it then
- finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
- The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- That gum you like is going to come back in style
- Trompe
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
- After a six-month diet of blues and greys I was back to white. I was an empty plate.
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- looking back, seeing far, landing right where we are
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
- I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
- we didn't know then that we were making memories
- can it be that it was all so simple then
- As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
- When she was bad
- She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
- the birds seem to know what we're up to out here.
- causing another person bad feelings and seeing the result isn't fun
- His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
- I married him because he was not mean
- The hole in the ground for bodily waste when camping
- If it was still then-
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
- They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
- it was years before they met again, by chance
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
- Would you tell me if it was true?
- I thought that what I was taught was true.
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