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there's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do
I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
I could do without it, if I knew what it was
There once was a girl named Irene
you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
Simple tricks anyone can use to hustle pool
For tactical reasons, we do not currently advocate the use of violence or sorcery against private individuals.
There was a man who lived a life of fire
He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
What guys do while their girlfriends aren't there
There was always the blue of you
No shit, there I was
She was never mine. I always shared her.
Why do Mac people also use Linux?
and there was this girl
Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
There Was A Friend
There was a land where lived no violets
finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
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 just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
What I would do If I knew what was good for me
Dan Used to do it
There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
There was this one great night at Alice's house,
There was a young lady of Riga
Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
How do you get there?
There was a cold day
One hour there was sunlight
Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
There Was a Man of Double Deed
Never do card tricks for the people you play poker with
Do or do not, there is no try
there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
Dirty Tricks were Used!
I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
There Was a Desert in My Head
relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
It was the least I could do
I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
Don't just do something, sit there.
I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
There is something we can do
There was once a Man
There once was a chicken named Alice
There was an old lady
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong
do not believe that any idea is the end. there is no end to ideas.
"It was wrong to do this," said the angel
There was a man with tongue of wood
Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
There was a time before
To think that there are kids today that have never used a joystick
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
There was a moment of drunken silence
Before inertia, there was impetus
In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
There was a baby in China
Before you, there was me
Where's the kaboom?
If the Windows source code was leaked, what do you think would happen?
The People Who Used to Live There
He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
Tricks girls use to look like they swallow
there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
Using gzip to do computational linguistics
What do you say to your best friend's ex?
Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
Do not use the toaster: It will catch on fire
It was all I could do not to cry
He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
Do not fight what isn't there
No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
As long as there are girls left do dance with this world is worth saving
There are many like it, but this one is mine
There are no cases like mine, Doctor.
The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
It was the right thing to do.
So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
there are many voids but this one is mine
There was a time when I was a better person
There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
There was a rose that faded young
The voice that said yes was mine.
There is nothing the dead can do
Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
Was it ever there?
It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
There Was a Child Went Forth
There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
I remember, there was one
So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
There was a man and a woman
I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
Was There a Time
There is a space between your shoulders where your wings used to be
There Once Was a Farmer
There once was a man from St. Paul
Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
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.
the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
There was no one waiting for me...
A knock there was upon the door
I was there
No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
There Was No Leak
Unfortunately, there was no applause
There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
Once there was a way...
There was a little girl
Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
I will not use the sidewalk. There are fucking sprinklers
Do you use money in the Philippines?
Do I have to watch my step at every turn?
Do aliens exist?
Do Her
Why women wear makeup and perfume
Spirituality has nothing to do with religion
comma comma down doobie do down down
What to do if you get in a car accident
Do you know William Faulkner?
middle of summer how crazy it was
Do a crouch
61 things to do with an AOL CD
Sim sala bim bamba sala do sala dim
What You do While I Slumber
Chung Do Kwan
Damned if you do, damned if you don't
do not disturb
Don't do anything I wouldn't do
and if you do, take pictures

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