Findings:

• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was a time when I was a better person
• it was true then
• A knock there was upon the door
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Once there was a way...
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was a time before
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Before you, there was me
• Now and Then, Here and There
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• No shit, there I was
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• I remember, there was one
• There was a rose that faded young
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• And Then There Were None
• 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 a cold day
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There Was No Leak
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• I think I fell in love with her right then and right there
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• There was once a Man
• If it was still then-
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• That Was Then, This is Now
• There was an old lady
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Was it ever there?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• and there was this girl
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a man and a woman
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Where's the kaboom?
• Was There a Time
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• I was there
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There Was A Friend
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There was a little girl
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There was a baby in China
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• There was always the blue of you
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• One hour there was sunlight
• the magic that was meant to capture the outlaw instead transformed him into a monster
• There is magic in this world
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• Magic smoke
• Magic Kingdom
• The Books of Magic
• ceremonial magic
• Magic bullet
• Hitachi Magic Wand, lesbian version
• Magic Johnson
• Monkey Magic
• DJ Magic Mike
• Magic Fingers
• The Colour of Magic
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• The Magic Christian
• Magic Hat
• magic missile
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
• magic sitcoms
• Magic Rune
• white magic
• ninja magic
• Earring Magic Ken
• Black Magic Woman
• Money is actually Magic Points
• Rubik's Magic
• Heroes of Might & Magic
• WoOz: 16 The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
• the magic of popular music
• Take my hand, little naked buddy, while we sniff the magic number
• Magic Bus
• Master of Magic
• Magic Knight Rayearth vs Sailor Moon
• The Magic School Bus
• magic lamp
• scroll of magic mapping
• Metamorphosis Magic
• A Place Of Dreams And Magic
• Magic Journeys
• Which hand is the penny in?
• Tip Makes an Experiment in Magic
• The Magic Circle
• General Magic
• Practical magic
• magic blue cock
• magic trees
• magic hour shoot
• magic resistance
• magic cancellation
• Dorothy's Magic Belt
• The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abra-Melin the Mage
• magic middle finger
• Black Magic M-66
• magic change number
• crystal magic
• We Still Do Magic
• Top secret - magic
• I wish I had the magic words that could take pain away
• Rocks Tonic Juice Magic
• How to recover a Sun Netra X1 with a Corrupted Disk Label - Bad Magic Number error
• Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology
• principles of magic
• Magic Alex
• Magic smoke from fingertips
• Sympathetic magic
• magic laundry basket
• Might and Magic
• magic rocks

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