Findings:
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- 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
- Back when our blood was still warm
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- I was very, very drunk
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
- All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
- I was told you were very pretty
- Sex with the Stewards of Gondor was always very lame
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
- why the Cold War was a stupid idea
- When I was Fair and Young
- Her name was Natalie
- When I was your age
- It was not death, for I stood up
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- When I was ten years old
- I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
- In the Gym the Floor Was Cold
- You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
- I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
- I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- His ex-wife was so frigid, her clitoris was only the tip of the iceberg.
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- When I Was A Baby
- 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.
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- There was a time when I was a better person
- An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
- 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 don't think the sun was up
- When I was five
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- When I was young Time had no wings
- Her hair was seaweed and the Pacific wind sang
- That week with her was like drinking bubbles
- When I was young
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- When touch was simple
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- It Was Cold, and It Ran Through Your Fingers
- Hold me up against the light of astonishment. What was I thinking of?
- The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
- The glass is half full when it comes to your life up until this point. The glass is half empty when it comes to everything you've missed out on.
- Trying to keep up with technology, when the quiet full moon is momentarily more than enough
- How I almost got shot all up full of holes
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
- When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- I was sure it was her
- I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
- All he left her was alone
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- When I Was Cruel
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- Despite her station, the quarry was never alone
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
- Her sleeves ride up on her arms when she moves
- making certain he was touching her
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- When I was 9
- I woke up and thought it was Saturday
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- man when you are telling me how it was
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
- as the red star rises, blood and carnage and her slow ascent follows
- He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
- I'll give up printf() when you pry my cold dead fingers from it
- It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
- The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
- You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
- So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
- At that time I was taken up with alchemy
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
- so fragile and cold, i was
- There was a cold day
- His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
- The conglomerate loves with the full force of a thousand entities. We take this very seriously.
- I woke up and was an instant scribbling fiend. crazy, my poor feverish brain
- When We Were Very Young
- The Blood Was Everywhere
- I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- Choosing bitterness is taking the easy way out. It's so easy to feel bitter when you've been hurt. Path of least resistence. Forgiveness is a path that goes in a very different direction.
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- 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.
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- November 4, 1995
- All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
- Back when grunge was still cool
- When I Was a Lad
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- When I Was a Boy
- She opened her eyes and spoke in a very normal voice, just as if she were sane
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- I laughed until my limbic system exploded...then got very scared
- If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
- 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 kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- When she was bad
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- She always was devious in her beauty
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
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