Findings:
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- 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.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There was a young lady of Riga
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- There Was No Leak
- There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
- There was a man and a woman
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
- There was no one waiting for me...
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- Once there was a way...
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There was a time when I was a better person
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was a time before
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- 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
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- Before you, there was me
- 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.
- If it was still then-
- In the spark of an enemy, there will be salvation
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- Where's the kaboom?
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There was a cold day
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Back when grunge was still cool
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- There was a baby in China
- There Was A Friend
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- 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
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- I was there
- There is a wound that is healing. There is a season waiting for me. There is a road that is turning. There is a fire still burning.
- remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
- Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
- There's still a place for the odd concentration camp
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- still there
- There was a rose that faded young
- There was once a Man
- 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
- No shit, there I was
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- 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 a Child Went Forth
- and there was this girl
- For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- One hour there was sunlight
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- There Once Was a Farmer
- There could still be a reunion of The Band
- Was There a Time
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Was it ever there?
- Are there still so many Nazis in Germany?
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- A knock there was upon the door
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- There was always the blue of you
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- wake up and find her still there
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Jimmy Sparks
- The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys
- Eating Certs in the dark to see the blue sparks
- The Spark
- BJ Sparks (user)
- One Little Spark
- emits showers of sparks
- The Monster Between The Sparks
- Plug Spark Sanjay
- Changing the rear spark plugs on a transverse GM V6 engine
- Spark (user)
- Lord Sparks
- Throwing sparks, growing dahlias
- bare neurons firing sparks in a grey void
- I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
- the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks
- Ruby Sparks
- Sparks McGee
- I hear the tiniest sparks and the tenderest sounds
- Eusebius Spark (user)
- the flecks of smoke and sparks don't conjure you back from the ground or heaven
- sending out sparks of dream and sleepthought
- still
- Still Life with Woodpecker
- Can we still be friends?
- Sexist jokes
- if you still read my nodes, Mike, this one's for you
- Running to Stand Still
- Still Hold The Moon
- Why beggars still live
- The Night is Still Young
- still warm
- I haven't seen her in a month. She is still beautiful.
- My body is still trying to explain it to my brain
- A crazy ideological teenager who still thinks that clear, free, rational thinking can save the world
- Companies that still do animal testing
- still dancer
- I still have the skull of the one that tried to bite my leg off
- The US Still Maintains A Military That's Formidable
- Does anyone still care about freedom?
- I can still feel you...
- I'm Still Here
- With all the advances in technology it still takes 3 days to clear a cheque
- The human race still needs religion
- A still - Volcano - Life -
- We Still Pray
- We Still Do Magic
- Still We Write
- My brother is still dead... and now I have his car...
- Lips, still touched with fire
- I am still so lost, I am
- Technology Is Still A Male-Dominated Field
- That last dance is still in my head
- Still Life with Volkswagens
- How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
- I still find strands of her hair in bed
- The one he murdered once still loves him
- no sense of direction yet still going somewhere
- My heart is a still and my blood is whiskey. Take a shot of me beneath the moon.
- the US is still under a presidential decree of national emergency
- Silent and still, trapped on glossy paper
- I am going to rewrite you so that I can still like people.
- Be still, my soul, be still
- lapsed Catholics are still Catholic
- Chicken farmer, I still love you
- Time stands still in the wake of yesterday
- A still mind sees what is. A busy mind sees what is not.
- the light still lingers
- Life in still water
- Solar still
- Still waters run deep
- The Protestant Reformation is still unfinished.
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