Findings:

• When I Was a Lad
• When Frederic Was a Little Lad
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• 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
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• When our word was iron
• When again between cities was comfortable and right
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• Back when our blood was still warm
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
• When the lad for longing sighs
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• 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.
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• man when you are telling me how it was
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• When I Was a Boy
• When I Was Cruel
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• When touch was simple
• When I was young Time had no wings
• What I wrote when I was missing David
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• I remember when all this was trees
• "Oskee wee wee! Oskee wa wa!"
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• And When The Sky Was Opened
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• When I Was a Babe
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• When Grandmother was finished with us
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• When I was your age
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• When I was ten years old
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• When I was five
• November 4, 1995
• When she was bad
• When I was young
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Back when grunge was still cool
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• When daddy was the handsome prince
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• When I was Fair and Young
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• When Desire Was a Virtue
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• 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.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• When I was 9
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• Some time when I was a teenager
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• When I Was A Baby
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• Only a Lad
• Strapping Young Lad
• Whatever Happened to The Likely Lads?
• Fantastic Lad (user)
• Lightning Lad
• Element Lad
• Evolvo Lad
• The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair
• Say, lad, have you things to do?
• Yuletide Lads
• Ladd's Addition
• The Likely Lads
• The Macc Lads
• How to become one of the lads (if you're a girl)
• Alan Ladd
• Yule Lads
• Diane Ladd
• was
• Descartes was wrong
• Why was Cthulhu blue?
• Kilroy was here
• The Walrus was Paul
• wa
• Music was better in the old days
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• Vancouver, Washington
• Was (Not Was)
• the seven hills of Rome
• No shit, there I was
• Her sleeves ride up on her arms when she moves
• It was a dark and stormy night
• Man was created in God's image
• I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• There was once a Man
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• It was you, Atthis
• I was once stranded on a dessert island
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• The day I realized what being alive was
• If Dr. Seuss Were a Tech Writer
• The world was designed for giant squid
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• Theories as to what was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction
• Just how perfect was Jesus?
• Was not cleanly unmounted, check forced
• It was all God's fault
• It was not a dream
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• Was Jesus resurrected as the Easter Bunny?
• Born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad
• Once, everyone was a computer novice
• I was never any good at maths at school
• I was a homeless bum
• The train station was fucking freezing and
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• Lando was supposed to die
• I woke up and thought it was Saturday
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Imagine if your microwave was intelligent
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Last time I was in Chicago I broke my ass
• Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
• Jesus was Mexican
• Leather-bound organizer
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• The highlight of my night was two girls kissing
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane

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