Findings:
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- 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.
- The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- She Looks Good, but She Has an Ugly Heart
- she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- She was very beautiful. Y'know?
- How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- She knew what she was doing
- She was free
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- Existentialism is that girlfriend who cheated on you. Postmodernism is who she was with.
- She was the seed of a strange tomorrow
- There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- He was an ant on an ill-defined mission. She was the trapdoor spider of love.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- She hated the screen porch, but she loved the heat
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
- She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- When she was bad
- She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Because, perhaps she was cold
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- She was cilantro, jalepeno, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
- Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
- I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
- She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
- You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
- She might not need me. But then again she might.
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
- /but what was the question?
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
- It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
- i thought i was special, but it was you
- What the hell was she thinking?
- When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
- 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.
- To a girl who thought she was moving away
- The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- She was cilantro, jalapeño, habanero. She was the hot plate you must not touch.
- She grew a little older, while he was telling her
- I was tired. It was late. She was Russian.
- She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
- She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
- it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
- The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
- It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
- She didn't know what outside was anymore.
- she was waylaid by an octopus
- She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
- Besides the part where she was the only one
- She Was 18, It Was Summer
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- She was like a candle in the wind: unreliable
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- She was too beautiful to be human
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- I note that she is pretty, but we are off into the city, my werewolf friend and I
- 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.
- strange and too short but I was lonely
- She Spoke in Nothing But Lies
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
- 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.
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
- I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
- She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
- I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
- All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
- 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
- Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
- She was locked in time
- "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
- There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
- But she heard it
- She dreamt she was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty field
- For a lawyer she was surprisingly like a child. Sometimes.
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- piano outside in the snow. and she was spinning
- She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
- She was steady
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- She was a Surrealist Woman, She was like a Figure in a Dream
- The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
- She always was devious in her beauty
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
- Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- The House on the Island Where She Was Born
- someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
- She was so quiet that nobody heard her
- A dose of mystery slipped into her cocktail while she was in the ladies' room
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- She probably thought your first language was English; your real first language was Joyce
- She was so pleased to learn that she was right
- She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
- She does not rustle but her flesh has the moonlit shade of a silver birch
- She was so tall, and I was so in love
- And when she came back she was nobody's wife
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
- She was coming out as he was going in.
- She is and was
- Outside the train station she was the only person wearing an Orange raincoat and a look of surprise
- she was just the dry smell of gasoline
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- butt naked
- Words that sound dirty but really aren't
- There is no god but God
- That'd be the butt, Bob
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
- Butt hinge
- I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
- Butt crack of dawn
- Lots of MIPS but no I/O
- Things people put up their butts
- Project B.U.T.T.
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- But I digress
- If I could slip this skin but for a moment
- Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
- Sexist jokes
- Yard Butt
- Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
- Not really by the rules, but...
- No, but I'll have a beer
- Free but worthless shares
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
- Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
- I know you are, but what am I?
- You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
- Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
- I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
- Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
- You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
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