Findings:
- when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
- Back when our blood was still warm
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
- 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.
- When I was Fair and Young
- When I was young Time had no wings
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
- I was watching through the window, you were going through the dances.
- I didn't know such things when I was young
- Back when grunge was still cool
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- The light on the bottom of the pool that you thought was real when you were a child
- When We Were Very Young
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
- Where were you when Kennedy was shot?
- November 4, 1995
- When I was young
- Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- When You and I Were Young, Maggie
- When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
- Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
- I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
- This was when I knew my childhood was over
- Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
- There was a young lady of Riga
- It was late when he came home; it woke you up
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
- 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.
- love is still real and worth searching for
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
- I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- Remember when the modern prison system was considered progressive?
- I still tiptoe up the stairs when it's dark
- The monster stares back at me. I'm still young enough to believe that, with the right shoes, I can outrun it.
- What I wrote when I was missing David
- When I Was One-and-Twenty
- There was a rose that faded young
- I was a young boy that had big plans
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- When I Was Born for the 7th Time
- When I Was a Lad
- The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
- and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
- I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
- When I was ten years old
- at least in dreams when shit gets ugly you can still fly and whistle
- Some time when I was a teenager
- And When The Sky Was Opened
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- Venus, when she is the evening star
- There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- When our word was iron
- I was told you were very pretty
- Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
- I am that person I was watching
- By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
- They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
- When All Is Revealed It Still Won't Make Sense
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- It has become the time of evening when people sit on their porches
- When I was your age
- Why I was convinced I would die young
- I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
- In the long purple evenings when rock n roll from WLAM blurred into night baseball from WCOU
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- We rode around the town late in the evening counting the streetlights to be sure all were burning
- I once was a clueless young noder
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- Climbing cherry trees when I was younger
- On she went. The woods were deep and still.
- When touch was simple
- When I Was a Boy
- I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- When daddy was the handsome prince
- I was young and I needed the money
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- When Frederic Was a Little Lad
- When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
- Oh, when I was in love with you
- 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.
- When I awoke, I was alone, and screaming
- Questions I would ask my born-again sister, if we were still talking
- When I Was a Babe
- 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
- collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- I remember when all this was trees
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
- What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
- in the end it was better that we were apart
- Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- When I was 9
- This was the way bodies were meant to behave
- I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
- When Grandmother was finished with us
- where was your heart when we needed it most?
- Was Pursuing an MFA Worth It?
- The Night is Still Young
- When the best rapper was white, the best golfer was black, and the tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese
- you were an angel and i was an angel
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- It Was a Beautiful Day When Aunt Norma Died
- I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- When the Monkey Stood Still
- we're living in bread that's still being baked
- when still her eyes held water
- When you understand the reasons why, you'll still hate our guts
- This morning, while you were still asleep
- If it was still then-
- remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
- You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
- Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
- We're all still very different
- If You Were Still Looking for Ego Death...
- A poem I wrote when I was 5
- we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
- I was into them after they were hip
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
- when you asked what I was writing, this is what it was
- Her grief is still too young to behave itself, so she never lets it out
- 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
- Time stands still when you're in the tube
- Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
- When again between cities was comfortable and right
- When I was five
- When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
- For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- When I Was Cruel
- When she was bad
- Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
- I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
- Eye contact at a distance
- Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows. Young as I was, I understood.
- It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- When Desire Was a Virtue
- I was shot through the heart, and you were to blame.
- Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
- I was once young and had a home
- I think I was a pterodactyl and you were the tiniest rodent
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- When he was little, he laughed in his sleep.
- The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
- When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
- Still, watching motion
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
- When I Was A Baby
- man when you are telling me how it was
- When Pride Still Mattered
- And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- We met at quarter past young; still, we grew up together
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