Findings:

• I was me before being me was cool.
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• When Good King Arthur Ruled This Land
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• 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.
• When touch was simple
• November 4, 1995
• Before the World was Made
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• Some time when I was a teenager
• When I was young Time had no wings
• Cybersex before it was cool
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• 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 again between cities was comfortable and right
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• 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.
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• When The King Comes Home
• 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
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• When I was five
• When I was young
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• man when you are telling me how it was
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• It was better before they came
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Before Time Was
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• At night, when we walked by the wall, the world seemed to fall down before us - the whole, far-off, dirty world.
• When We Were Kings
• i was given a mind before i was given a heart
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• Before you, there was me
• When I am King
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• When I was your age
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• When I Was a Lad
• When I Was a Boy
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• Back when grunge was still cool
• 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 ten years old
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• 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
• 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.
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• When we see the early signs of daylight fading, we leave just before it's gone.
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• Back when our blood was still warm
• When I was Fair and Young
• When I Was Cruel
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• 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 Baby
• When I was 9
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• When I Was a Babe
• I remember when all this was trees
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• 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
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• When Grandmother was finished with us
• 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?
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• When she was bad
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• When our word was iron
• There was a time before
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday
• before common era
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Before the Rain
• The Island of the Day Before
• Before and After Science
• pearls before swine
• Before Thinking
• JeffMagnus Remembers: Everything Before Experience (a lament)
• Laugh at yourself before others do
• csh history expansion refers to the line before most csh expansions occurred
• How long must I stay in my pajamas before I turn into Howard Hughes?
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Vaguer than before. Slip.
• Ground rush
• Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in his shoes
• Wei Chi, before completion
• Think before you speak
• Before Choice Disturbs
• I am but a moth before your flame
• Before Choice Disturbs Poem
• Before we dump the bodies, you guys wanna go to Hooters?
• the days before porn
• A buddha before history
• RFC 1882
• Undercover "Jesus" Surfaces Before Departure
• Early, before our hands knew what to do
• Before you ask a question
• These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• If I should die before I wake
• The Scots Confession: Chapter 14
• Before Night Falls
• Quick, put your shirt back on before the cop gets here
• Thirty Sonnets: At the Tomb of Napoleon Before the Elections in America -- November, 1912
• To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women
• The Night Before
• I dreamed of her pulse long before I took it from her
• Service Before Self
• Galileo: A Democrat Before His Time
• A Love Before Time
• before the mast
• naked before you
• Getting a working visa in Japan
• Shake Before Using...
• We've heard it all before
• Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success
• Just a word before tomorrow
• letter-writing is always before an absent addressee
• Sobering up before going to bed
• My life closed twice before its close
• The Changing Experience of African-American Children Before and After the Civil War
• color photography before color film
• Twas the night before eye surgery
• make before break
• Before the Flood
• What if we all got jobs and got to bed before dawn?
• Before the Red Cliff Rhapsody
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• Don't Leave Before the Miracle

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