Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Yeah, that was really dumb to put that there, but there's a reason for everything"

• 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.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• 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 silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a young lady of Riga
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• There Was No Leak
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There is no god but God
• 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 was a moment of drunken silence
• There was an old lady
• but the fruitsellers are there every day
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• The real reason there are no third parties in American politics
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There are things that happen and there is no reason for it
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• I was there
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• Was it ever there?
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• There was once a Man
• Is there any part of you that really wants this? Or is the pursuit like breathing to you?
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Was There a Time
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• 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
• One hour there was sunlight
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• but are there horses?
• There are some masks we put on ourselves, and others are put on us.
• There was a time before
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• There was a baby in China
• Before you, there was me
• Once there was a way...
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• There's a reason that a funeral is not a celebration
• there is a reason for the presence of water on my desk
• There's no reason to leave this poem alone
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There is no ending until you find a reason to begin again
• No shit, there I was
• Six reasons -- er, four reasons -- why maybe there could be a (nontheistic) God
• There was a little girl
• There was a time when I was a better person
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
• and there was this girl
• I remember, there was one
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• 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
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There Once Was a Farmer
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• There was a cold day
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There is no dream but this.
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was A Friend
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• A knock there was upon the door
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• 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
• there are many voids but this one is mine
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• Fossils were put there by God
• There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• No, don't set it down there; that's the Void. Just leave it on the coffee table.
• I want to put my hands there too
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There but for the grace of God go I
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Is that table really there?
• There was always the blue of you
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• Who's There?
• There is good country music
• Do We Really Need Another Reason to Hate Mosquitoes?
• The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
• There is no windchill at absolute zero
• But my computer really IS possessed
• There's Something About Mary
• There is no spoon
• There are four lights
• Things people put up their butts
• there
• Sex with my accountant was always really, really efficient
• The reason Shiite imam was based on the house of Hussein and not the house of Hassan
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Sexist jokes
• You can't get there from here
• Do or do not, there is no try
• Not really by the rules, but...
• In the mountains, there you feel free
• out there
• There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
• IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
• There is only ONE God
• What danger is there in cussing?
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• It was really hot, in a Silent Hill kind of way
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over

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