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• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• Let's just say the ground is swept for me even if nobody rolled out a red carpet
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• 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.
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• Three Puerto Rican girls walked by like accordion music under the trees, looking like they'd accept nothing less than perfection.
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• What was stolen by someone else
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• 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 worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
• 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.
• 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.
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• On a Tree Fallen Across the Road
• there are many voids but this one is mine
• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• 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.
• but don't take my word for it
• and my heart sings of cupboards opening by rainbow seashore but
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• WoOz: 19 Attacked by the Fighting Trees
• Nobody for me but you
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
• Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
• There is no dream but this.
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• Across the Andes by Frog
• 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
• Across the River and into the Trees
• legs spread out across the reservation
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• You are spinning with the stars and I take your hand across miles
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• Don't judge a book by its cover
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• There but for the grace of God go I
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• if you walk across the street in this town with someone, make sure the guy's name isn't Jay Walker
• 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!
• Loneliness is but a myth dispelled by you
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• Starving in the greenhouse
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• There are four zeroes in the registered births in the USA across 1993. I'm one of them.
• The lights are on, but nobody's home.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• 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.
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
• Helping people cheat
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Growing grapes is harder than making wine. You will discover this, but it might take a lifetime.
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• Don't take this personally, but it's personal
• The axe forgets but the tree remembers
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• Because everything is teetering nobody notices. But whenever something falls everybody knows.
• Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I was taken by a honeymoon scam
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
• Being rejected by someone you really respect
• but are there horses?
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• Cryptic, but I'll take it
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Push butt: Rub hands under arm
• There is no god but God
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• They may take our car keys, but they'll never take our freedom
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• Nobody Knows It But Me
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Nobody's fault but mine
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Butt's Twelve by Pies
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• but the future is always tomorrow -- even now drowning in bytes
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• but the fruitsellers are there every day
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• /but what was the question?
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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