• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• 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 was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• No important data was harmed by the ILOVEYOU worm
• There was a rose that faded young
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• I Thought I Was A Child
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There was a baby in China
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• The teachers thought I was insane
• She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
• 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
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• With him it was always like
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Was There a Time
• Dumb laws
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• and there was this girl
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• There was once a Man
• Was it ever there?
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• I Thought My Father Was God
• There was a time when I was a better person
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a man and a woman
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There was no one waiting for me...
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Before you, there was me
• Last year was always better
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was an old lady
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• Charles Bridgeman
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There Was No Leak
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• She always was devious in her beauty
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• A knock there was upon the door
• more sure of all I thought was true
• There was a cold day
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a time before
• I was there
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• To a girl who thought she was moving away
• Sex with my sister was always really, really good
• More than he was willing to give
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• No shit, there I was
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• I remember, there was one
• There once was a girl named Irene
• It was more than perfect understanding
• One hour there was sunlight
• There Was A Friend
• For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• This was unexpected, my soul's connection to you
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President
• I once was a clueless young noder
• I wish I was carrying cigarettes
• no aru taka wa tsume o kakusu
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• The Man Who Was (user)
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IX
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I was a father for a few days
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• The night was alive, and so was I
• Jesus was a revolutionary
• The night your father was stabbed in the back room of a convenience store. No mercy.
• At that time I was taken up with alchemy
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• The rest was not perfected
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• the little friendship that never was
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• why the Cold War was a stupid idea
• For one thing, he was sure his granny would never have used smack.
• I wish I was a half of a two
• It was a start
• It was men who made breasts into a secret.
• everyone who ever told me i was pretty was lying.
• Vancouver, Washington
• That was a joke, son.
• God was created in man's image
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• i wonder if that was meant to console
• Do you remember when Everything was small?
• Where Once Life Was
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• I was a teenage telephone solicitor
• I was my mom for a while
• The world was black and white
• The skyline was beautiful on fire
• If the government wasn't involved in the Sept 11 attacks, what was it doing?
• He Was a Crook
• Barnum was right
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• 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 adored once too
• I was monied and I needed the youth
• It was a green field and a pleasant day
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• I Hear it was Charged Against Me
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• This Was Your Life
• it was my birthday
• The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• Was it Love, or Obsession?
• I was hit by a train that doesn't really exist
• Where the floodwaters went after the flood was over
• A delicate and lovely monster was hiding behind the fronds
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• I was Christian for a day
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms

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