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I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
She breaks hearts almost as often as she breaks the speed of sound
She is and was
someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
she was waylaid by an octopus
She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
And when she came back she was nobody's wife
I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
She was coming out as he was going in.
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
The state that almost was
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
When she was bad
piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
She was so tall, and I was so in love
Because, perhaps she was cold
Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
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.
Why almost every node was written in the year 2000
she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
Besides the part where she was the only one
She knew what she was doing
She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
in the morning it was almost too dead center
All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
She was so pleased to learn that she was right
When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
What the hell was she thinking?
She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
She was never mine. I always shared her.
She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
She always was devious in her beauty
The flowers smiled, but she was gone
She grew a little older, while he was telling her
She was very beautiful. Y'know?
She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
The House on the Island Where She Was Born
Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
she was just the dry smell of gasoline
He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
She was so quiet that nobody heard her
She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
To a girl who thought she was moving away
When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
"He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
She didn't know what outside was anymore.
you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
She Was 18, It Was Summer
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.
She was free
She was too beautiful to be human
For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
She was locked in time
She was steady
Almost Blue
I think I know that I am almost always afraid.
Because I say so
almost everywhere
"Beautiful" is almost as misused as "love"
almost always
Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
almost all
almost (user)
water moves, beneath the ice. now is almost time -
Sympathy tokens, breast cancer and why I almost killed a pacifist
The Thanksgiving Curse, or, how we keep almost getting killed.
The Tornado, or, how we almost all got killed.
Almost Free Software
I almost killed Tony Blackburn
English: a language with (almost) no negative verbs
Almost Too Much
John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
Signs that a television show is almost dead
Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
What almost always happens after you fall in love
There is almost no need for the word 'get'
I almost had to wait
Almost!
We exchange stories of almosts, of near deaths, theories on fate and algorithm, probability and God
I am clothed when other people go almost naked through the frozen cities in winter
I almost stopped believing in shooting stars
Almost Heroes
The time I accidentally made napalm and almost burned down the physics lab
Almost Like a Whale?
Almost Transparent Blue
Be your own fiction. After that, the story almost writes itself.
Almost Summer
Pages, almost completely torn
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything: A Postmodern Adventure
the quiet, almost reverential tones of uninterrupted footsteps
Today, I almost got killed by Darth Vader
Almost Oedipal
When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
The night I almost expected
almost alone
Walls so thin, I can almost hear them breathing
Almost entirely innocuous chocolate meringue cookies
Almost realizing I wasn't straight; really realizing I wasn't straight
An almost empty room
Almost Him
too much is almost enough
I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth
Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
The Introverted Thinker almost kills the dog
almost drove past the church that day
Forties
Forty
Two hundred and forty dollas worth o' pudd'n
octal forty
ASCII pin-ups of the forties
Sylvie and Bruno: Queer Street, Number Forty
The Forty Thieves
Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves: I
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves: II
Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves: III
Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves: IV
Rules for drinking forties
Forty acres and a mule
Roaring Forties
Forty winks
The Edwin Smith Papyrus: Case Forty
forty (user)
She smiles in colors
By the way, she has a penis; just so you know.
English As She Is Spoke
English As She Is Spoke: Useful Words, Part I
English As She Is Spoke: Useful Words, Part II
English As She Is Spoke: Familiar Dialogues, Part II
English As She Is Spoke: Familiar Dialogues, Part III
English As She Is Spoke: Familiar Letters
English As She Is Spoke: Familiar Anecdotes
She Hangs Brightly
Robert Lionel Fanthorpe fills up the word count in a science fiction novel: she brushed her teeth
English As She Is Spoke: Idiotisms and Proverbs
She arose and said matter-of-factly
she turns and smiles, then walks away
She misses me
So then she said
(s)he
She has the biggest cock of any girl I know
I knew she wasn't faking
So happy she drools
She writes notes to me, to keep me in check
She said, while hugging a bowl of turnips close to her bosom
I haven't seen her in a month. She is still beautiful.
How clear she shines
She thought about giving him her heart
Is she really going out with him?
what she kisses twice
She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots

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