• Rattle and Hum
• sleep as defense mechanism
• And the sky was made of amethysts
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• I didn't even know he was sick!
• What was left after the party
• I was very, very drunk
• Where Once Life Was
• Even the moon was wrong
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• When I was young
• Jesus was a liberal
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• The Epidemic That Never Was
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• Psalms of the Convenience Store Clerk: Hum, Blessed Beer Cooler
• Julie Strain
• It wasn't like I was sleeping anyway
• I was taken by a honeymoon scam
• When I Was One-and-Twenty
• Her name was Natalie
• I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
• It was the least I could do
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• I came, I saw and was undone
• That Was The Year That Was
• it wasn't the terrorism that flung us apart, it was the pigeons
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• Free Speech Was Threatened Again In The 21th Century: Another History Chapter
• The night was alive, and so was I
• I Was a Teenage Werewolf
• It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here
• There was a cold day
• Would you tell me if it was true?
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• 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.
• A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• Galatea was a bookish girl
• Johnny Dangerously
• Freud's Defense Mechanisms
• Criminology: Strain Theory
• my only pin-up was Pelé
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• I'll tell you what kind of guy I was
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• deru kugi wa utareru
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• Same as it Ever Was
• What the hell was she thinking?
• There was a customer today
• Johnny Was
• For 5 minutes precisely, I thought I was dead
• If over the hills was someplace new and forgotten
• If 6 Was 9
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• You kissed me. It was sweet and timid.
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Nu Wa
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Django Reinhardt was dead already
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• I was once young and had a home
• And Pharoah's heart was hardened
• It was crippled, it was heart-felt. The latter invariably trumps the former
• it was true then
• Hoom hum
• biochemical mechanism
• The Walrus was Paul
• There was a young lady of Riga
• when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• She was locked in time
• Why Smokey Bear was wrong
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• She was very beautiful. Y'know?
• If a black hole were created on Earth
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Last year was always better
• And I beheld the lack of embrace, and the strife was ever-present
• A delicate and lovely monster was hiding behind the fronds
• In my own shire, if I was sad
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• How the West Was Won
• The sky rained tears. I was sure.
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• It was free, so I took it.
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• She was so quiet that nobody heard her
• That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
• This node was made for you and me
• hum (user)
• The Andromeda Strain
• It was not a weather balloon at Roswell
• Man was created in God's image
• If the King's English was good enough for Jesus
• Concrete, Washington
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Was I born to play?
• I once dreamt that I was a line
• it was my birthday
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• The Day Earth Was Born
• The sky was green today
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Olympia, Washington
• I was a nice guy once
• One big happy random assortment of truckstop trinkets
• Crazy? I was crazy once.
• Jesus I was evil
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
• Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
• Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• It was better before they came
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• I can't remember why I thought this was a bad idea
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• shell quoting mechanisms
• Strain 121
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• Back when grunge was still cool
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• The highlight of my night was two girls kissing
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• tonari no shibafu wa aoi
• I couldn't sit, it was Thursday
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• I was the center of gravity of Chicago for one beautiful Saturday
• Saki wa imasen
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• I was Chris to him
• He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
• It was a pauper's laugh. It was what I could afford.
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• There was a man and a woman
• Jungle Wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu
• As I was saying to my goldfish
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• There Was A Friend
• The dynasty made people die in nasty ways. This mess was necessary and they're not sorry.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• They hum like angels
• parameter passing mechanism
• wa
• Trompe
• If Dr. Seuss Was A Tech Writer
• Upon my indulgence, I was dissatisfied
• That Was Then, This is Now
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• She was steady
• When I Was a Lad
• Gnocchi was my undoing
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Willie was a chemist
• I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
• the lake was on fire that summer
• Sympathy for the Mongols & How The Rise of the West was just sheer Dumb Luck
• This Dust Was Once the Man
• It was nice working with you
• This was not my going away party
• The sexuality and marital status of Jesus
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• The lawn was white with doctors
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• Upon the hills where day was done

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