Findings:
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
- When I was young Time had no wings
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- 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.
- 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.
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- Was that real, or did I dream it?
- man when you are telling me how it was
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- Shimmer over bridges like the river was a dream
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- When I Was A Baby
- If I was a good person
- Food was purer in the good old days
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- Back when grunge was still cool
- Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
- November 4, 1995
- When I Was a Boy
- I was never any good at maths at school
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- Never Had It So Good
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- I was so cool, that first afternoon
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- When Grandmother was finished with us
- where was your heart when we needed it most?
- You had to pretend success was fucked
- so fragile and cold, i was
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- When I Was a Lad
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- When she was bad
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- The train that came to me in the dream was already a dead train
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- What I would do If I knew what was good for me
- I'm starting to think I was a waste of a perfectly good placenta
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- When I was Fair and Young
- What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
- 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.
- Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
- When I was 9
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- 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
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- Stuff was started stuff had ends
- And When The Sky Was Opened
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
- So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
- It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
- When I Was a Babe
- People wouldn't fall in love so often if it were more clearly marked
- I was once young and had a home
- The night was alive, and so was I
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
- I was doing so well.
- It was free, so I took it.
- His ex-wife was so frigid, her clitoris was only the tip of the iceberg.
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- the country was so nice we bombed it twice
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- Some time when I was a teenager
- unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- a dream was faintly clinging to my fingertips. accidentally i brushed my lips, poisoning myself.
- The hall was littered with broken dreams and shattered concrete
- When I was your age
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
- When touch was simple
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- When I was ten years old
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When I was five
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- can it be that it was all so simple then
- When I Was Cruel
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- Sex with my sister was always really, really good
- If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
- You've never had it so good
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- In the end, it was a Good Thing that I rushed Pierre.
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- Suicide Was A Good Choice
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- 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 I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- I had never known someone whose death was imminent
- I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
- Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
- I remember when all this was trees
- I was the worst lay you ever had
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- I was a young boy that had big plans
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- When I was young
- so my crowd was Catholic, Protestant, atheist, confused, and white
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
- The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
- It was not a dream
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