• He not busy being born is busy dying
• Born Under a Lucky Star
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• 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 wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• The House on the Island Where She Was Born
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• What if architecture was like web design?
• Looks like 1984 was only n years off
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• I was me before being me was cool.
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• I was raised on red pepper and blood I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• babies being born without brains
• Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• Dance like no one is watching
• Born To Be A Rock Star
• And the silence between them? Like the stars.
• I remember books being like air and food and water to me
• I Was Born Yesterday
• Aunt Peg
• a lot like the appeal of being electrocuted
• I Think I was Born in the wrong Hemisphere
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• Kisses on my shoulder like little stars sparkling
• Your radical ideas about this being like David Foster Wallace have already occurred to others.
• The Day Earth Was Born
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• When you blow out like a dead star
• That week with her was like drinking bubbles
• I feel like I'm being watched
• Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• The truth is like a sinking star. Follow it over the horizon, the way gazelles follow rain.
• One problem with being born really soon after Christmas
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• Born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Like a distant star, on the horizon
• The day I realized what being alive was
• "I was born this way" as justification for gay rights harms the gay and lesbian community
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• like you put stars in the hole in my head
• Being born gay
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• shining like blasphemous stars on an endless ceiling in hell
• Being Asian is rather like having large breasts
• The Business of Being Born
• a voice like pebbles being shoved through a harmonica
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Do you even realize how much your spirit illuminates? It is like stars.
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• She was watching me and I didn't know it.
• Watching the weather in the company of stars
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• I was born this way
• being a kid was great
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• Sparkling like a star in his hand, melting like a snowflake
• Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
• Watching the stars go out
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Autumn is like a dying man's last words
• I feel like a rock star
• Why I stopped being a vegetarian and ate meat like a real red-blooded American MAN
• Was I born to play?
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• With him it was always like
• As soon as you're born you start dying
• Fireflies are like stars on Earth
• I am that person I was watching
• If I was beautiful like you
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• Twinkle, twinkle, like a star. Does love flourish from afar?
• Star Trek XI: Ailing Space Pope
• To catch a falling star
• Star Trek: Legacy
• Galaxies and stars and Pandeism
• Star Observer
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• being close to another person
• Evolutionary pressure against being evil
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• You Are Not Being Fair
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• The Everything guide to being a pizza driver
• Conrad's dirigible was tipping
• being doored
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• Being both black and white
• Wharfinger was no Shakespeare
• The joys of being jailbait
• Even the moon was wrong
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• When I Was a Lad
• The boy who was picked last in gym class
• Opinions are immunity to being told you're wrong.
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• living being
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• born again
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• The dot-com fallout: Was hype to blame?
• You kissed me. It was sweet and timid.
• Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen
• "Do Not Cheer, Men Are Dying," Said Capt. Phillips, In The Spanish-American War
• How was the play, Missus Lincoln?
• Statistics of Americans dying abroad
• I was the liar; here is the truth
• The lawn was white with doctors
• I Don't Like Mondays
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
• You like me, you really like me!
• Galatea was a bookish girl
• Like A Friend
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• If the real world were like the internet
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• Greeks like their women armless
• Renee was a princess (person) mp3 (recording)
• DSL is like heroin
• Just like tomato soup
• She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots
• Finding air where matter once was
• Passing the baby around like a peace pipe
• I know they are watching me
• How do you write like that?
• Spring Watching Pavilion
• Do like you oughta, add acid to water
• Watching TV as a couple
• Boy suspended for pointing chicken finger like gun
• I used to fuck people like you in prison
• Candles are like souls
• For Leslie, who runs through this book like a river
• bad weather is like rape
• Kissing is more like pie tasting than kissing
• My father is like Jimmy Carter
• A face like a slapped arse
• blue like an arrow, deep and true
• railed like a red coal train
• Nobody Likes a Bogan
• candle smoke and christmas spice leapt up their noses like cardamom cats
• Like a dog standing on its hind legs, begging for attention.
• Never felt so much like singing the blues
• this writeup made me hungry like DAMN so I'm chinging it!

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