Findings:

• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Was it ever there?
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• One hour there was sunlight
• There were only twelve raindrops, she counted them on the windshield under heavy soft skies
• If there's hell below we're all going to go
• Where's the kaboom?
• No shit, there I was
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• November 4, 1995
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There Was No Leak
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• This was the way bodies were meant to behave
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• What if there were a war, and nobody came?
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There were no clouds. I prayed for lightning.
• 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.
• There was a man and a woman
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I remember, there was one
• There was once a Man
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• you were an angel and i was an angel
• and there was this girl
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• Behave as if there were a God
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There were many who went in huddled procession
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a time before
• Was There a Time
• A knock there was upon the door
• There Was A Friend
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• And Then There Were None
• There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Were there civilian Transformers?
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• no shit, there we were
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
• I was into them after they were hip
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Were there nine moons above your head? Were there none?
• There was a young lady of Riga
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a rose that faded young
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• There was a land where lived no violets
• 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
• Were there a god!
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Fossils were put there by God
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• If there were no birds
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There was a cold day
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There were times better than this
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• So There We Were
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Before you, there was me
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• I was there
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
• There was a baby in China
• There was always the blue of you
• There was a little girl
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• There was an old lady
• Once there was a way...
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• 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.
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There were three young ladies of Birmingham
• I was told you were very pretty
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• You can't get there from here
• Do or do not, there is no try
• You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.
• Like there's no tomorrow
• Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?
• There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"
• There is no friend anywhere
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Is there anybody out there?
• There are no transitional fossils
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• There's a sucker born every minute
• There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
• all the cute guys will be there
• There is no strategy in StarCraft
• There's a story behind it
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• The more laws there are, the more crime there is
• There is only one electron
• At Least There is Racing
• there's good and bad in being a database administrator
• Why there hasn't been much hooliganism in holland during Euro2000
• Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
• The Party Over There
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• there's water on Mars!
• Be a problematic duck over there
• there is more breeze in the suburbs of the South
• For every set there exists a larger set
• There All the Honor Lies
• There's no such thing as normal
• Pop music is irrefutable proof that there is in fact a Hell
• You weren't there
• There are as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are in the set of all real numbers
• There's someone in my head but it's not me

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