Findings:
- I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
- Guilt is a hard thing to bury but it’s a really easy thing to dig up
- Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
- They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
- I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
- They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
- Sororities are nothing but social crutches
- English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
- Simply messing about in boats
- So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
- people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
- We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.
- In the city, silence is no longer silence but the memory of a noise
- But it isn't
- I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
- follow us into the black, so far that we can't get back
- Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
- He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
- There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
- I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
- I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
- there must be something positive about this; I just can't think of it at the moment
- What you really need to know about Everything
- The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
- Not really by the rules, but...
- Things people put up their butts
- Backed Up Outback (user)
- I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
- If by Dull Rhymes our English must be Chain'd
- I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
- It is a strange thing to wake up every day and do things you care nothing about
- Pokemon evolution isn't evolution
- You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
- did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
- The reason we were so excited about Y2K
- In case of accidental death, back up your state vector regularly!
- I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
- we are built to hold on, but the world is about letting go
- i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
- Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
- But what are they really thinking?
- You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
- I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)
- It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
- I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- I am afraid to write tonight, but I must.
- what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
- I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
- you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
- But this isn't a Cyberpunk story
- Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
- This is the kind of English up with which I will not put
- stop being so English
- Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- This isn't about YOU, dammit! No, wait, it IS about you (kinda).
- She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
- The music in my head is too loud to think about anything but you
- Isn't it about time you grew out of all that juvenile screaming nonsense?
- Life is not so much about saying hello as it is about saying goodbye
- If you really care about someone, do not tell her to fuck off
- People who get worked up about misspelling Colombia
- I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
- nobody writes poetry about nobody writing poetry
- But What About the Property Damage?
- This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
- What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
- back up
- I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
- It's a beautiful day, but the smog's back
- Zip him back up, he sucks.
- Huddled shoulders and bent backs, like so many shadows
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past
- What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
- Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
- It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
- If we ran this back an infinite number of times across infinite existences our souls would still never connect, so don't regret.
- This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
- Musical Terms Applying to Percussion that Sound Dirty But Really Aren't
- Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
- Feeble Prozac poetry about exploding nipples
- Here's the thing about trying to blow up the Earth
- I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time
- But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth?
- So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
- the smallest number that looks prime but isn't
- you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
- Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
- Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
- So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
- we can give up, but the world never will
- but the worm ended up killing them too
- I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
- So runs my dream; but what am I?
- The prophecy is made up, but it's also true.
- I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
- I want silence, but wait for the phone to ring
- and but so
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
- Out of practice but my heart hurts so
- English Poetry
- Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
- It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
- I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
- I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
- I never really thought about it
- What some stuffy Victorians had to say about poetry
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence
- Bumper stickers about kids who beat up honor students
- The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
- Nobody writes poetry about science
- So why talk about politics now
- Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
- Nobody writes poetry about financial security
- Last night I dreamed about television. I woke up crying.
- Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
- Nobody writes poetry about microbiology
- Tell me a story about being really alive
- If biology must teach about creation, should geography teach about a flat earth?
- he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
- Someday my life will be interesting, and I will come back and tell you about it then
- Tell me a story about being really undead
- Fuck you I'm going to write poetry about your city
- You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- Fifteen words about butt kicking
- What if the hokey pokey really is what it's all about
- There's so much to think about. I'm getting distracted.
- There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
- I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
- The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
- another "poem" about unrequited love and how it fucks up your everything
- Love isn't about fixing people
- Game Jams but about words (e2poll)
- Backing up your Windows registry file
- Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
- How to test if your mother REALLY has eyes in the back of her head
- Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
- the world's big enough, but how about your mind?
- Archived E2 FAQ: Back Up Your Work (document)
- I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
- So the sheep will push back
- finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
- Dammit, I am so sick of reading about other noders enjoying human companionship
- The back of the cereal box isn't what it used to be
- When the roof is caving in and the walls are crumbling and you sit back and realize it's beautiful
- I realize that I've been missing the backs of necks
- In the Spirit of "Build Back Better", How about Bring Back Banishment?
- I got your back but you're best to watch your front
- But my computer really IS possessed
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- Words that sound dirty but really aren't
- Sexist jokes
- It hasn't been so long, but
- I'm really sorry about that!!!
- On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
- Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
- I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
- What can a reed do but sway about and love?
- Don't talk about me behind my back
- Libertarianism sounds good on paper, but is it really?
- words are cheap, but silence is a steal
- Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
- I get knocked down, but I get up again
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
- I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
- If Thou But Suffer God to Guide Thee
- Sadness isn't sadness, but happiness in a black jacket
- I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
- We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
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