Findings:

• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• 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.
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• never again is what you swore the time before
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• When I was five
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• man when you are telling me how it was
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• 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 smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• 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.
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• Some time when I was a teenager
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• When Grandmother was finished with us
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• 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.
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• When I was your age
• It happened to everyone else; she swore it wouldn't to her
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• When I Was Cruel
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• When I was Fair and Young
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• When I was ten years old
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• When I Was a Babe
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I remember when all this was trees
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• When our word was iron
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• When I Was A Baby
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• 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
• 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 burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• that moment of panic when you flush the toilet but nothing goes down
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• /but what was the question?
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• 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
• 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.
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• Swore
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• When I Was a Boy
• November 4, 1995
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• Back when grunge was still cool
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• When touch was simple
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• When I was young
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• When I Was a Lad
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• When she was bad
• When I was young Time had no wings
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• 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.
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• When I was 9
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Back when our blood was still warm
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• Butt hinge
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• i like it when we talk about the deep stuff
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?

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