Findings:
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- 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 late when he came home; it woke you up
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- man when you are telling me how it was
- When he became an old man
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
- If a frog had wings, he wouldn't kick his tail when he jumped
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- When I was young Time had no wings
- he was a punk poet himself
- I cried when he threw away the paper towel on top of the microwave
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- 'T Was Such a Little, Little Boat
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- When Grandmother was finished with us
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- He did very little harm
- So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
- making certain he was touching her
- He was found
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- It was 1992. He smiled.
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- When You Were Little Did You Wonder
- When did I lose my brave little soul?
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When I was ten years old
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- the little friendship that never was
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- When I was 9
- When I Was a Babe
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- where was your heart when we needed it most?
- It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
- I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- the summer can do little more than feed itself
- Shaymus is older than I thought he was
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- some say he was never here at all
- 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 was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- That's Just How He Was
- he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- Tom, He was a Piper's Son
- Little plaques that say "So-And-So Was Born Here"
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
- When we were little kids, running
- A man who never sees a pretty girl without loving her a little
- November 4, 1995
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- Back when grunge was still cool
- When touch was simple
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- When I Was a Lad
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- My purity was little stickers I willingly gave away in exchange for hearts
- Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- 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.
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- When I Was A Baby
- Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- More than he was willing to give
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- Some time when I was a teenager
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
- 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
- I remember when all this was trees
- When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- When our word was iron
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
- 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
- When I was Fair and Young
- He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
- The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
- I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
- I hope that for a few moments he felt a little less alone
- When a man lies he murders some part of the world
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- At least he was gentle
- St. Lucia in This Guy When He Died, Man
- All he left her was alone
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- When he grins it is a thousand-word story
- The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
- when you reflect that john now knows how he's going to die.
- He was hard in all the wrong places
- He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
- Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
- He Was Only Joking
- In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- He Was a Crook
- When you're little, mom and dad are superheroes
- He is so heavy when he whispers
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- When boomboxes came with little internal mics
- There was a little girl
- When I was your age
- Jones saw forest, saw nothing for it, was a little telephone apology
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- Don't interrupt an enemy when they're making a mistake
- I married him because he was not mean
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- When I was five
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- 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 a Boy
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- When I Was Cruel
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- When she was bad
- When I was young
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
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