Findings:

• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• 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
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• Ain't no fun when the rabbit's got the gun
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• When I was five
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
• With him it was always like
• Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry
• Things to do when technology gets here
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• When I was young
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• the rock here is strange. it moves when i am not looking.
• Kilroy was here
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• When you blow out like a dead star
• I like it here
• November 4, 1995
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• i like it when we talk about the deep stuff
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• When I was young Time had no wings
• When I was ten years old
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• BROOKS WAS HERE
• I'm wishing Jesus was here again
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
• What am I doing here when I could be swimming with the dolphins?
• When I was your age
• the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
• There was a time when I was a better person
• 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
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• When touch was simple
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• 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
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• When you move here we will have plenty of time to have fun together
• To Here Knows When
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• I had seen the whole thing coming like a ghost train. Here I am on the tracks, still bleeding, taking phone numbers, haunted.
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• At Least It Was Here
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• i like my body when it is with your
• How to flip a coin when you haven't got one
• It was always hot here
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• If I was beautiful like you
• The night when I felt like speaking my mind
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• What if architecture was like web design?
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• 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 most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• seizing on a Nugget of Truth and wielding it like it was a club
• 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
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• What does a candle's flame look like when it burns in space?
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• I Like Bananas Because They've Got No Bones
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• it's hard to turn away when it feels like she's singing directly to you
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• Back when grunge was still cool
• 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)
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• When she was bad
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• Back when our blood was still warm
• When I was Fair and Young
• When I Was Cruel
• 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.
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• Here's what I hope to do with the Everything code or with something like it
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• sifting sand to find fading past in smooth stones, sorrow was here
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• I would like to bring you here
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• I was the liar; here is the truth
• I'd like it here if I could leave and see you from a long way away
• Here's your heart, usually I don't like dead things as gifts.
• You were here when I fell asleep
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• Democracy assassinated the family that was here
• And I cannot see your soul hovering here, where I would like to
• It looks like a tourism brochure photo from up here
• The whole world changed when Paul got shuffled over to the bass
• the leaves fell like raindrops when you touched the earth
• I was expecting it to hurt like a fuck
• some say he was never here at all
• The kids round here look just like shadows, always quiet, holding hands
• I've Got Your McFlurry Right Here: Help Welcome donfreenut to Swinging London
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• when your pet starts to feel like a person
• Late-night rally driving on the beach, or: Run like Hell when the cops come
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
• Napster was like the lamp with the wrong pricetag
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• Looks like 1984 was only n years off
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
• When you fly like thunder, I am reminded of Icarus and Bellerophon. How does your myth end?
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• When the moon is grinning, looking like a bowl of milk
• I like it when I dream of her. It's the only time we get to talk.
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• That week with her was like drinking bubbles
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
• when the forest burns along the road like god's eyes in my headlights
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• 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.
• My skin felt like I was falling
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• When I get like this
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• 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
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• Like When a Pill Goes Down Wrong
• like nothing ever was
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• I got a girl in the war, Paul, her eyes are like champagne
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

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