Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Trying to make a name for yourself on E2 by publishing poetry is like playing in the WNBA for fame. You might get a few points here and there, but practically nobody's watching and practically nobody cares."

• Rhesus Monkeys and Dormant Underwater Volcanos: the "I can't believe there's nobody here from Madagascar" E2 Madagascar get-together
• singing like nobody is there
• Ain't nobody here but us chickens
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• She could run a spiel like nobody's business. She could sell the world and make you wish for more.
• What do you do when nobody cares anymore, not even yourself
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• There will be nobody there to shed a tear
• nobody likes father-son presidential teams
• To leave you there by yourself chained to fate
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• Nobody's fault but mine
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Nobody writes poetry about microbiology
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• But an unchewed square catches in his windpipe and he crumples to the floor like someone poisoned by life
• Nobody cares if it was originally a nodeshell
• Nobody cares about your fucking breasts!
• Problems with E2 user poetry
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Nobody writes poetry about financial security
• nobody writes poetry about nobody writing poetry
• there's nobody waiting for you
• Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• e2 is like having a conversation with yourself
• There's nobody to blame
• What if there were a war, and nobody came?
• Nobody writes poetry about science
• Some needlessly emo poetry trying desperately hard to make a pun midway through
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• qanat get there from here
• If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody's around, does it make a sound?
• as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• Nobody likes an iconoclast
• Nobody likes a cyclist
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• Nobody Knows It But Me
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Nobody for me but you
• Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, think I'll go eat worms
• There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Nobody Likes a Bogan
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• Now that there is no hell, evil folks like you just get reincarnated as McDonald's register jockeys
• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it's not.
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• The lights are on, but nobody's home.
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• There's no point unless you make one
• You can't get there from here
• 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
• Nobody cares who would win a fistfight between Anne Frank and Lizzie Borden
• Realistically, it's probably a good thing that usually nobody's listening and nobody cares.
• I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
• for those to whom name is everything, there is no difference
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• nobody (user)
• Mister Nobody
• Nobody Loves Me
• Right Makes Might
• Nobody sends snail mail anymore
• Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
• nobody really (user)
• Nobody True
• Nobody fucks with the Jesus
• Just dead, barren walls. Nobody's listening.
• 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?
• The Day Nobody Went To McDonald's
• Make E2 Pretty (document)
• Make E2 Pretty: The Poll (e2poll)
• Too much awesome poetry on E2
• RFC 602
• if you walk across the street in this town with someone, make sure the guy's name isn't Jay Walker
• When things are known by a brand name
• Sex just walked by me, and I didn't get any, dammit
• Addressing others by their user names
• Dance like no one is watching
• Let E2 lighten your mood with a few humorous nodes
• Neon lights under your car do not make it look like it's floating
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry
• Notes on ruining the beauty of barren places by being there
• Don't make me get my shoe!
• MyBase and other VB.NET concepts designed to make you feel like a five year old
• The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody
• Everytime I get XP, I feel like I have to save my game
• I think I will stay here until it gets dark tonight
• watching headlights roll by, maybe you noticed one, swept by a little too slow
• I know it will get complicated and I know I may make it worse
• what do you get if you multiply six by nine
• Be Yourself, said the buxom blonde. Just Like Everyone Else
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• i don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be gored by a chainsaw
• I expected to die by fire. It didn't occur to me that I might drown instead.
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Loneliness is but a myth dispelled by you
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• YOU MIGHT GET LOST
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• Using the Web like E2
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• Make yourself redundant
• Archived E2 FAQ: How to Make an Episode Guide (document)
• Is there a problem, (insert title here)?
• Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp'ring Here and There
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• Neither here nor there
• Bands Who Take Their Names from Eighteenth-century English Poetry and Prose
• Buy stuff, E2 gets money (document)
• The kids round here look just like shadows, always quiet, holding hands
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• Here and there in the darkening green
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• A few, but enough.
• The bowl in the cupboard that nobody uses
• Nobody chooses apples with bruises
• 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
• Nobody steals food you've bled on
• nobody important (user)
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• Nobody in Particular Presents
• You make yourself lonely even though you don't have to
• On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog-rose
• Nobody's Fool
• We represent the people that nobody else wants to
• Make E2 Pretty: Voting (document)
• How to make a fool of yourself on national radio
• Describing feelings with words is like playing the piano with a baseball bat
• E2 is like getting old, having friends die, and running into them on the street
• I like the way he reads poetry
• feeling like a failure by meeting goals
• Snooding like there's no tomorrow
• These women who must live like the high Sierra white pine, fed somehow by the alpine wind
• Make the Pie Higher by George W. Bush
• A Tyler By Any Other Name
• misunderstood to the point of misunderstanding yourself
• Would you like to penetrate her shell, insinuating yourself among the pages of the books she is reading?
• Into the World There Came a Soul Named Ida
• Of course I refused, afraid of what his hands might feel like
• What it's like to be questioned by the FBI
• You're All I Need to Get By
• When I get like this

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