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• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Loving Jesus for the life he lived
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• He made a felon of himself and ended up a box in our spare room.
• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• he did not look back. he walked slowly. he might stop at any time.
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• HE HIMSELF (user)
• Even as he watched the sea rise up like anger
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• She lights everything up. He glows in the dark.
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• Jesus cannot save you. He cannot even save Himself.
• He is so heavy when he whispers
• He lives in my soul
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives
• "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• Things people put up their butts
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• So, he's leaving
• He lived in southern California with his tanned, powdered mother
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• And so he sailed the wine-dark stars
• tonight the cat decided to get in my bed which he doesn't usually do
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• "Shut up," he explained
• He began to learn that waste flows downstream. Imagine his surprise.
• He's not cute, as in good looking, but he's got a cute psychosis
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• He Knows Not Their Names
• Of King Sigmund's last battle, and of how he must yield up his sword again
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• 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.
• Zip him back up, he sucks.
• He loved her so much, he wanted to do her autopsy
• Lions are cats, he reminded himself
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• And so he sailed the wine-dark sea
• Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog
• I'm up, he sees me, I'm down
• It was late when he came home; it woke you up
• He speaks so well!
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• He wakes up everyday, puts an empty gun in his mouth, and pulls the trigger.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• He smiles but it's not real.
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• I sealed up my future where he could not get it.
• When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• 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 Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• I never learned how to stop loving him
• The promise of life. This he stole from himself as well.
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• he was a punk poet himself
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• He did very little harm
• He never killed a man that did not need killing.
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• He cries for me, all these years later. He'll never stop 'til I join him in the grave.
• When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• I did not consent to feeling so small
• Oedipus-Schmedipus, as long as he loves his mother
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• He just wanted to give me something he forgot to give me a long time ago
• He said, expecting the answer no
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• How did I end up here?
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Ancient Arrowhead
• He Is Born
• did you add up all the cards left to play
• I'm scared to death of what havoc he could wreak in my life
• A man feared that he might find an assassin
• Why won't he call?
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• So how did you two meet?
• What did you learn from your time in the solitary cell of your mind?
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
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• He ran over my cousin with a motor home!
• No matter how wise an old sheep, he can't teach a fish how to polevault
• He loves me, he loves me not
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• Even my faults he adores
• You asked me to leave. So I did.
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• 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?
• armed with nothing but their own vision
• Why did so many animals return to the sea
• Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened When & Where It Did
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• So did I.
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• Oh, did you learn to play chess after YOU dropped a barbell on your head, too?
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• He's Gone
• He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder.
• They did so because they believed they could.
• How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
• He's Jack
• Song of the Sorceress
• Don't Go Out the Door
• Li He
• hes (user)
• He never returned
• GpBCT: proof that Bob wins on a countable union of sets if he's guaranteed a win on each one of them
• I Am He that Aches with Love
• He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy
• great things he has taught us
• Chris and What He Untaught Me
• Surah 80 He Frowned!
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• My brother never told me not to smoke. He showed me.
• BQN: He said. - Epilogue
• "He" is actually a buxom blonde bisexual sorority girl. The net is like that.
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• Saint Paul did not screw up Christianity
• Study, study, study, but maybe just to learn
• The annoying kid told me to kick him so I did
• Puking Onstage Before a Live Audience, or: The Pooka Did It
• Climb up on the Moon? Of course we did.
• Where did you learn ebonics?
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• We did not make this up
• I woke up in a bed I did not know
• Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
• When did everyone get so attractive?
• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
• He is radical and funky fresh!
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• When did the World get so old?
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
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