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Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
one perfect moment of beauty
Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
When daddy was the handsome prince
When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
When I Was a Lad
When I growl, the sound echoes like thunder all through the valleys and woodlands, and children tremble with fear, and women cover their heads with their aprons, and big men run and hide.
She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
What does a candle's flame look like when it burns in space?
the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
That moment sometimes when your inner voice just says, "Fuck you. Fuck you all."
Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
When you fly like thunder, I am reminded of Icarus and Bellerophon. How does your myth end?
When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
November 4, 1995
someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
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 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.
He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
I would have liked thunder when she left
For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
When the moon is grinning, looking like a bowl of milk
because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
If I was beautiful like you
Moments when the concept of the United States of America takes form
Some moments seem too perfect to be real
like nothing ever was
Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork
There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
Late-night rally driving on the beach, or: Run like Hell when the cops come
I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
When I Was Born for the 7th Time
When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
Back when our blood was still warm
Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
It was late when he came home; it woke you up
When I was 9
And when she came back she was nobody's wife
When Desire Was a Virtue
I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
I remember when all this was trees
Oh, when I was in love with you
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.
The night when I felt like speaking my mind
What if architecture was like web design?
The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
I like silent moments
I feel like I don't know her for a moment. It passes.
I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
My skin felt like I was falling
He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
it's hard to turn away when it feels like she's singing directly to you
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.
The perfect moment
The space at that moment was a million ways freaky with invisible communication.
there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
It was more than perfect understanding
What I wrote when I was missing David
Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
When I was your age
In this moment, when everything has come apart...
Like When a Pill Goes Down Wrong
when your pet starts to feel like a person
I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
When she was bad
When I was young
When again between cities was comfortable and right
I didn't know such things when I was young
When I was young Time had no wings
When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
When I Was Cruel
When I was Fair and Young
I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
i like my body when it is with your
I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
man when you are telling me how it was
The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
When Frederic Was a Little Lad
When I Was a Babe
When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
Some time when I was a teenager
The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
When I Was A Baby
Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
When I Was One-and-Twenty
Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
When you blow out like a dead star
For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
Looks like 1984 was only n years off
Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry
All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
Since his eyes were like perfect packed suitcases
I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
Few things ruin a romantic evening like finding your car has been towed
Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
Moments like these
It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
Like an owl among the ruins
When I'm wearing a bonnet and sipping pretend tea with Miss Ponykins and Zippy the Ugly Zebra, that's when I feel the most like a man
When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
With him it was always like
She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
I like it when I dream of her. It's the only time we get to talk.
when the forest burns along the road like god's eyes in my headlights
Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
That week with her was like drinking bubbles
Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still
seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
i like it when we talk about the deep stuff
when my time is in the past, i hope my heart lays in the grass, and feeds another one who lives like it's all just begun
When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
There was a moment of drunken silence
The exact moment when I ceased to take my education seriously
It was a Mary Tyler Moore moment
The Moment When Nothing Happened
That was the moment
perfect moment
That moment when...
for a moment the whole world was beautiful
Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
The rest was not perfected
Just how perfect was Jesus?
the moment when they take possession of you
that moment of panic when you flush the toilet but nothing goes down
I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
A poem I wrote when I was 5
Everything is hazy and perfect when you're on enough hard drugs to disconnect you from reality.
treat every moment like it's your last
I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
When I get like this
This was when I knew my childhood was over
When touch was simple
When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
When I Was a Boy
There was a time when I was a better person
When I was ten years old
When I was five
when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
Back when grunge was still cool
the leaves fell like raindrops when you touched the earth

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