• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• At night, her eyes closed, she would
• I would beg to see your arms raised in calcification towards the expanding horizon
• She does not rustle but her flesh has the moonlit shade of a silver birch
• A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• She started to fall, and knew she would never come back
• Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
• She Looks Good, but She Has an Ugly Heart
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• As Guan Yu would surrender to the Han, but not to Cao Cao, I will surrender to you, but not to your desire to control me.
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• But if you destroy the world, where would we live?
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• If she didn't love you she would kill you
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the books she is reading?
• The dog who would not beg
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• She Spoke in Nothing But Lies
• She hated the screen porch, but she loved the heat
• 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 would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
• It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• She told me I looked like a Henry, and this is how she would know me
• I note that she is pretty, but we are off into the city, my werewolf friend and I
• Who would cry for me should I die tonight?
• What Would Judas Do?
• Things you would bring with you if you were ever invited to shower with jessicapierce
• The dog who would not back off
• if you weren't real I would make you up
• would you place bets on my heart
• Did you think I would give up that easily?
• Everything I say would make a good nodeshell
• Mr. Butts
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Streets thick with wild chaos and cigarette butts
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• But where the bones had landed, things began to grow
• Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a briar
• Ain't nothing but a thing
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• You can, but you may not
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• Like hating water, but living in the lowlands
• Love cookies
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• no ideas but in things
• You Might Think It's Sexual But Actually It's Not
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• A Confused Gay Profusion of Media and Points of View that is Somewhat Smugly Disparaging but Possibly Ends with Sex
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• pretty, but
• Charles Butt Stanton
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• Not Peace But A Sword
• She approached me with some vague line
• I knew she wasn't faking
• She found her bliss between the headphones, and pursed her lips.
• She Sells Sanctuary
• What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?
• She Stoops to Conquer
• She plugs her tears in the way you'd keep a dam from breaking
• She left these broken things
• she named it killer and took it to the beach to play in the sand
• when she saw the funny side, we introduced my child bride to whisky and gin
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• She practices her speech
• The Things She Could Forget, If I'd Forget Them Too
• Because I still love her, because I know she still loves me.
• She asked me to stop dreaming of death
• How would you understand?
• We would probably not understand alien life
• What one object of modern technology would bring you ultimate power in the 15th century ?
• you would have been
• Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
• Would you want to live there?
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
• When I would muse in boyhood
• Weak and desperate from decades of commuting the djinn would barter all for coffee and a friendly ear (fiction) mp3 (recording)
• separate but equal
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• I know you are, but what am I?
• Butt fluffies
• Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
• The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is bastards
• I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• We are the same age but years apart
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• anger is honest but not truthful
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• It's not happening here, but it is happening now.
• nothing but (user)
• Pretty Butt (user)
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• She Moved Through The Fair
• what she kisses twice
• How she saw the moon
• She Fucks Me
• There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
• She Said, She Said
• The day she lost the light
• His face when she fell
• she spent the night gingerly peeling me off the moon.
• She is what happens when silence makes love with night.
• Doors and windows open, she screams "COME ON, MOTHERFUCKER" at the hurricane
• Mira, she says
• she looked at me then whispered, we are all made of stardust
• She was free
• She just appeared out of nowhere
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
• Scientology is a wonderful religion that I would never want to sue me
• Without tears, the soul would never know a rainbow
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• I knew silent footfalls would come in handy someday
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• Why the ancient Babylonians would have loved high definition television
• Only her hands would give her away
• The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
• butts ARE litter
• I am but a moth before your flame
• General Butt Naked
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt
• I'm tone-deaf, but it's okay
• We're one, but we're not the same
• I'm not homophobic but...
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• Butt Wars
• Nothing But Trouble
• all but
• Ladies and gentlemen, I play piano, but god is in the house tonight.
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• You suckers still fucking node, but your noding wisdom. My bad.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• I am many things, but I am not that strong
• dead, but longing to touch
• Man is but the imprint of his native landscape
• They are all pretty but fading.
• the butt of the joke
• Santa's festive fear mongering wasn't going as well as he'd hoped, but the other Santa and I were enjoying the gingerbread.
• She Hangs Brightly
• She has trouble acting normal
• She told me to say that
• She is stupidly keeping herself a secret, when I know she has sparkly things to show me
• All She Wanted
• And yet she lingers
• Spinning shapes like a song out of order. In the dark she can see fireflies.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• she may hold life
• she was just the dry smell of gasoline
• she couldn't go and be beautiful

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