Findings:

• There once was a chicken named Alice
• 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.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There are two sides to every bet: a crook and a fool
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There was a little girl
• Where's the kaboom?
• The other day I saw a gas station called Space Age! I was not fooled!
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a man and a woman
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I remember, there was one
• I was there
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a time before
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• A knock there was upon the door
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• Once there was a way...
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was an old lady
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Was it ever there?
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• 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 Child Went Forth
• and there was this girl
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• One hour there was sunlight
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a time when I was a better person
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Before you, there was me
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was a cold day
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There Was No Leak
• There Was A Friend
• Was There a Time
• There was a rose that faded young
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• No shit, there I was
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was always the blue of you
• There was a baby in China
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was once a Man
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Fool
• I pity the fool
• The Motley Fool
• Fool's Gold Loaf
• Holy fool
• Fool's Errand
• Never argue with a fool
• Kissing a Fool
• Fool's Mate
• what it takes to be a fool
• The Fool
• bus ridin' fool (user)
• Only Fools and Horses
• Fools Die
• even the fool
• You couldn't fool your mother on the foolingest day of your life even if you had an electrified fooling machine!
• The Fool's Epilogue
• Lincoln's April Fools' letter to Mrs. Browning, April 1, 1838
• Superman Dam Fool
• April Fools' Day in Iraq
• You Were The Fool
• Frank Fools Crow
• fool credit
• fool (user)
• like a flower with a fool's face I open myself
• Fool For Love
• Henry Fool
• Fool on the Hill
• Fool...
• Heaven Help The Fool
• Fool's Gold
• Chain of Fools
• April Fools' RFCs
• The Perfect Fool
• that hour we lost was the one I was going to use to get my life together
• don't be a fool, it's nineteen-ninety-five, the girls are just friends
• April Fool
• Hello lovely fool where have you been all this time.
• Do not let this groove fool you
• the fool on the hill (user)
• A fool and his money are soon parted
• Nobody's Fool
• How to make a fool of yourself on national radio
• keep us fooled a little longer
• How to Find Your Lost Cell Phone (Without Making A Fool of Yourself)
• Men are the great romantics, the dreamers and fools. Women are realists.
• No Fool Like and Old Fool
• Is it April Fools' Day yet? (superdoc)
• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... uh... you can't get fooled again.
• you are a fool to the stage, a rough sheet of paper in the pocket of pink dress, a remnant of another life
• fools in this dreamscape
• April Fool (user)
• Fool in the Rain
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• Fool Good Inc.
• How to Fool a Magician
• Fool's paradise
• Fool's Bluff
• Fruit Fool
• fool every time every day i
• rokit fool
• Every Poet is a Fool
• The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool
• night makes a fool of us in daylight
• What danger is there in cussing?
• You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.
• Like there's no tomorrow
• Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?
• The more you eat, the more there are
• Why are there Black Vulcans?
• There's a place in France
• you had to be there
• Aye, there's the rub
• there's no accounting for taste
• There shall be no more cakes and ale?
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"

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