Findings:
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- 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 time when I was a better person
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- When I was 9
- When touch was simple
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There was a time before
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
- When I stop going there, I will be well.
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- When I was young Time had no wings
- When I Was a Lad
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- 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
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- When she was bad
- There are times when they seem to be right
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- I'll get there when I get there
- A knock there was upon the door
- I was there
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- There was a land where lived no violets
- remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- and i just want to be there when the lightning strikes
- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- When I was young
- When I Was a Boy
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- When I was five
- There was an old lady
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- One hour there was sunlight
- Before you, there was me
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- There was a cold day
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There are words. When new ideas confront us, we create new words. We forget that there are no words.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- There was a little girl
- 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 No Leak
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- Back when grunge was still cool
- November 4, 1995
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- 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
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- Back when our blood was still warm
- When I was Fair and Young
- When I Was Cruel
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- 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.
- man when you are telling me how it was
- When I Was A Baby
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- When I Was a Babe
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- I remember when all this was trees
- No shit, there I was
- 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
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- Was it ever there?
- When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- I remember, there was one
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- and there was this girl
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- 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 never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- Where's the kaboom?
- Was There a Time
- There was a man and a woman
- There Once Was a Farmer
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
- There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- When true love dies, there are no paparazzi
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- There was no one waiting for me...
- There Was A Friend
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There was a rose that faded young
- There was a baby in China
- There was once a Man
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
- there is a special kind of loneliness when you are not where your mind is
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- There Are Days When I Leave My Life Next to My Black Boots
- Once there was a way...
- 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 more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- When I was your age
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- There was always the blue of you
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- When I was ten years old
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- There was a young lady of Riga
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