Findings:

• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was a man and a woman
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was once a Man
• So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There are two sides to every bet: a crook and a fool
• There was a time before
• He Was a Crook
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• The Man Who Was (user)
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• The Crooked Man
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules.
• Jesus was a black man
• 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 once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Your husband was a great man
• Adam really was the first man
• I was there
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• One hour there was sunlight
• Somewhere north of Houston, there is a short smelly man that I don't care for
• There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• The Man Who Was Thursday
• Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
• man, there sure are a lot of stories
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• No shit, there I was
• And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a baby in China
• Once there was a way...
• There was always the blue of you
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• and there was this girl
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• Once there came a man
• I was a free man once, in Saigon
• That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• My man was shot for his sheep coat
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• The Man Who Wasn't There
• God was created in man's image
• Man Was Made to Mourn
• man when you are telling me how it was
• There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
• He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a rose that faded young
• There is no man in the sky who cares what we eat and drink and fuck
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Where's the kaboom?
• 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.
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• There was a cold day
• Before you, there was me
• A knock there was upon the door
• There Was A Friend
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Was There a Time
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There Was No Leak
• There was no one waiting for me...
• 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 a little girl
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Was it ever there?
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Man was created in God's image
• The Black Crook
• The Crooked Magician
• By hook or by crook
• Max Crook
• all the crooked secrets we keep in the cupboard
• Small Time Crooks
• Crooked Koan
• Them Crooked Vultures
• Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
• Well-Manicured Man
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• The Mythical Man-Month
• Son of Man
• Notre Dame Man
• Man of the Century
• The Gingerbread Man
• Terminal Man
• Man Bites Dog
• To boldly go where no man has gone before
• old man
• Puma Man
• Little Big Man
• poor man's thinking
• Dead Man
• Arms and the man
• The Man in Black
• The Man Who Sold the World
• Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick-Tock Man
• Man's desire to blow shit up, and to have a nice attache case
• medicine man
• To Serve Man
• Flesh Man
• Culligan Man
• Maytag Repairman
• The Man Show
• stunt man
• The Six Million Dollar Man
• Take it like a man
• Too Much Coffee Man
• man of letters
• Fat Man
• Piano Man
• Man Hand
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Anime Man (user)

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