Findings:
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- 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.
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- 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
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- And When The Sky Was Opened
- He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- He Was a Crook
- When I was your age
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
- When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
- man when you are telling me how it was
- when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
- It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- He Was Only Joking
- That's Just How He Was
- The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
- I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- When I was five
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- When I was young
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- I cried when he threw away the paper towel on top of the microwave
- I remember when all this was trees
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- When our word was iron
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- Donald Duck was banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- making certain he was touching her
- he was a punk poet himself
- He was found
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- When I Was a Boy
- November 4, 1995
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- Back when our blood was still warm
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When I was ten years old
- Don't interrupt an enemy when they're making a mistake
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- 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
- Some time when I was a teenager
- When I Was a Babe
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- where was your heart when we needed it most?
- 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
- Shaymus is older than I thought he was
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- When Grandmother was finished with us
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- When I Was A Baby
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- Don't believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- Tom, He was a Piper's Son
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- When a man lies he murders some part of the world
- It was 1992. He smiled.
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- All he left her was alone
- When he became an old man
- If a frog had wings, he wouldn't kick his tail when he jumped
- When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- 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.
- St. Lucia in This Guy When He Died, Man
- More than he was willing to give
- He was hard in all the wrong places
- some say he was never here at all
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
- As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
- when you reflect that john now knows how he's going to die.
- When he grins it is a thousand-word story
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
- Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- Back when grunge was still cool
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- When touch was simple
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- When she was bad
- At least he was gentle
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- When I was young Time had no wings
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- When I Was Cruel
- When I was Fair and Young
- 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 was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- When I Was a Lad
- Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
- I married him because he was not mean
- When I was 9
- 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.
- 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.
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- He is so heavy when he whispers
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
- It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- Please calm down, this is all standard procedure
- or maybe a calm voice, that accent you don't think you have
- He's Gone
- He's Jack
- Her sleeves ride up on her arms when she moves
- He who has enough to eat does the hungry not believe
- The Message of King Sakis and the Legend of the Twelve Dreams He Had in One Night
- A Quick One (While He's Away)
- he just died
- he o hitte shiri tsubome
- I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
- He's got stacks and stacks of words that rhyme, describing what it is to lose
- How many times has God twiddled his thumbs before he put vertebrates on the Earth?
- He giggles, as he wiggles
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