Findings:
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- Shaymus is older than I thought he was
- When our word was iron
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- A poem for two pages of panel art for a comic that was never written
- When I was five
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- When I Was a Babe
- I cried when I wrote this song, sue me if I play too long
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- I Thought I Was A Child
- You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
- Lord Christ, When First You Came to Earth
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- thoughts on a hat as my grandfather nears death
- Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- I remember when all this was trees
- Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
- Adam really was the first man
- No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
- I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
- Dumb laws
- What's the first thing you feel when you shoot an unarmed civilian? Recoil.
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- When I first met you
- When I was young Time had no wings
- When I was ten years old
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- Cain was the first technologist
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- when Hemingway Wrote
- The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
- It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- The first time I knew I was different
- This is a poem I wrote about nothing in particular
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- I Wrote a Poem Daddy
- I was so cool, that first afternoon
- What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
- I thought ALL women looked for a wedding ring when they talked to ANY man
- He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
- When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- i thought i was special, but it was you
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- When I Was a Lad
- When I Was a Boy
- There was a time when I was a better person
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- 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
- When touch was simple
- 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 she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- the first casualty when war comes is the truth
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- Some time when I was a teenager
- 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
- my first poem
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
- And When The Sky Was Opened
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- When Grandmother was finished with us
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- Some Haikus I Wrote When We Went to the Keys
- the first thought of Zarathustra
- when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- where was your heart when we needed it most?
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- But life is hard when the written word is your first language
- When first my way to fair I took
- When my boat comes in, you will be the first to board
- The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
- Why was my poem nuked?
- A poem for when I loved him
- I wrote this poem just to irritate you
- the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
- My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
- The teachers thought I was insane
- I woke up and thought it was Saturday
- For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
- About gradual producing of the thoughts when talking
- Thoughts that randomly pop into your mind when masturbating
- more sure of all I thought was true
- I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
- I Thought My Father Was God
- what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
- Good foods to eat when you first get a tongue piercing
- i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
- Thought experiment on a boring Tuesday (or, When the world lasted 20 minutes)
- Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
- When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
- Buying your first mountain bike
- I thought that what I was taught was true.
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- Back when grunge was still cool
- When I was your age
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- November 4, 1995
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- 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.
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
- When she was bad
- When I was young
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- 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 first iron-on transfer I made myself was controversial
- When I Was Cruel
- 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
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- 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.
- This is no joke; I always thought it was a company that made trench coats.
- My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
- When I was 9
- When I Was A Baby
- man when you are telling me how it was
- 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.
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
- First Aid
- first at-bat
- The first node
- The First Man
- First edition
- The first truth-value logic computer
- J K Rowling never wrote here
- Star Trek: First Contact
- First Line, Last Line
- Today is the first day of the rest of your life
- to a first approximation
- The first five minutes after I wake up
- Who made the first bread?
- First Crusade
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