Findings:

• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was once a Man
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There Once Was a Farmer
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There once was a man from Nantucket
• Once there came a man
• Once there was a way...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a man and a woman
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• 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.
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• The Man from Snowy River
• There was a rose that faded young
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• That Man from Subs (user)
• You can't get there from here
• For every delayed technology there is a sudden, completely unexpected advance that jumps at us from the shadows
• There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• and there was this girl
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I was in a blindfold taste test once...
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• The Man From Another Place
• Jesus was a black man
• There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• The Man from the Diogenes Club
• There was an old lady
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a time when I was a better person
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• The Man From Newark
• The Man from Utopia
• Letter from a man who smokes Chesterfields
• Deliver me from a place where there are no scars.
• The Man From N.O.U.N.G.
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• I was a nice guy once
• There was a land where lived no violets
• I remember, there was one
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a cold day
• One hour there was sunlight
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• The Man Who Fled From Azrael
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there
• The Man from Athabaska
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums
• The trail of its demise was visible from the surf.
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• Abortion from a man's perspective
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• God was created in man's image
• Adam really was the first man
• This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules.
• And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
• Man Was Made to Mourn
• So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• Leather-bound organizer
• I was adored once too
• I was once young and had a home
• Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
• Where Once Life Was
• what once I was
• Finding air where matter once was
• 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
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• Once was enough
• every noder was once a normal human
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• No shit, there I was
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Where's the kaboom?
• Was it ever there?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Love is stored in the memories of what once was
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Was There a Time
• 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 a moment of drunken silence
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• I once was a clueless young noder
• Rhesus Monkeys and Dormant Underwater Volcanos: the "I can't believe there's nobody here from Madagascar" E2 Madagascar get-together
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• Man From Atlantis
• The envelope held fingernail parings and a note which read, "There are more where these came from"
• A Good Man From New Jersey
• The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Apartment
• There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• A bitter man rots from within
• certain wisdoms about a place can only come from dying there
• View from the plane before man
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• the man from uncle (user)
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• "Bass Players": From the life of the composer as a young man.
• Man From Beara
• qanat get there from here
• 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
• On getting blown up 8000 miles from home by a man who does not own shoes
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• I convert my crushes into friends, and from there to the status of Muse
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• In the Fifties, a visitor from Great Britain to New York City notices a young Black woman driving a limousine. A portly middle-aged man, race undetermined, is in the back. Tell her story.
• chapters marked by love notes from another man's wife
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string
• A learned man came to me once
• That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
• The Man Who Was (user)
• Somewhere north of Houston, there is a short smelly man that I don't care for
• Once you have tasted flight: In defense of manned space travel
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• Man was created in God's image
• My man was shot for his sheep coat
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• Victor Burczyki, a man who once bought me a beer and told me this story
• 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.
• Your husband was a great man
• man when you are telling me how it was
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• man, there sure are a lot of stories
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• There is no man in the sky who cares what we eat and drink and fuck
• I Used to Know a Man Who Killed Me Once a Week
• Once I helped a man die
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I was in a commercial once
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• 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!
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I was once stranded on a desert island
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction

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