Findings:
- There was a cold day
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- No shit, there I was
- I remember, there was one
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- 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.
- Was it ever there?
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- 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 always the blue of you
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- Where's the kaboom?
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- One hour there was sunlight
- I was there
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- There was a rose that faded young
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- Before you, there was me
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There was a baby in China
- There was a little girl
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- There Was No Leak
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- There was a young lady of Riga
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- and there was this girl
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- There was a time when I was a better person
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- There was an old lady
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- There was a time before
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- A knock there was upon the door
- There Was A Friend
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Was There a Time
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- There was no one waiting for me...
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- There Once Was a Farmer
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- Once there was a way...
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There was once a Man
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- Why there are seven days in a week
- there's a first time for everything
- It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there
- The other day I saw a gas station called Space Age! I was not fooled!
- the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- 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.
- Christ Was Born on Christmas Day
- The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
- The first iron-on transfer I made myself was controversial
- There is a family in me somewhere and some days it tries to tickle its way out.
- I met a girl in the garden who was doomed to die the next day.
- but the fruitsellers are there every day
- Music was better in the old days
- Now there's a sonnet you don't see every day
- The Day Earth Was Born
- That Thursday the Universe was curved in the morning and was flat again by afternoon
- I was so cool, that first afternoon
- There is no music for this day
- I was a father for a few days
- Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncy
- Upon the hills where day was done
- One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
- The day I was showering with two black men
- There Are Days When I Leave My Life Next to My Black Boots
- Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
- The Day the World was about to End
- The first time I knew I was different
- All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
- in the morning it was almost too dead center
- Morning was like an ex-wife's bruises
- After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
- Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
- I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
- Is it me or are there more bisexuals these days?
- There are not enough hours in the day
- So I was cold chillin on the corner on a hot summer's day
- Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks
- It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
- The day I found out I was a guy
- There are not enough hours in our day
- And in those days was armageddon
- I was Christian for a day
- Food was purer in the good old days
- There Goes the Neighborhood! A Labor Day housewarming
- It was a green field and a pleasant day
- There Goes the Neighborhood! 2: Unfinished Business
- in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
- By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
- My very first mentor was a heroin junkie
- Adam really was the first man
- My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
- I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
- By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
- Cain was the first technologist
- By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
- The day I realized what being alive was
- every day she stands there, waiting. every day, she's gone when i get there.
- If you behave there will be cake for the miscreants we call your brothers
- There's no substitute for cubic inches
- There is no such thing as a free lunch
- Proof that there exist irrational a,b for which a^b is rational
- Are we there yet?
- There's an alien in your bag
- Is there anybody out there?
- There is no suck, only blow
- There is no 'I' in 'team'
- There I stood, rambling incoherently into the tin can, you loved it
- there's a spider in my keyboard
- There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
- How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
- There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
- There Is Nothing Left to Lose
- There are no atheists in the foxholes
- Behave as if there were a God
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- I will wait for you in the ruins of the food court near what was once the Cinnabon
- Oh my God! There's an axe in my head!
- beyond the veil of nothingness there exists a sea of poets, judges all
- There is no camel in this scene
- There is no happy ending
- Seeing your password right there on the screen
- There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you don't see, in the places you don't visit in your shining city
- Being There
- There is Power in a Union
- There is infinite hope, but not for us
- There is a speck of dust in my eye, honestly
- There are no transitional fossils
- there is no existing mythology
- There's a sucker born every minute
- all the cute guys will be there
- He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
- Hang in there
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