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I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Start
Chance
Live
Fiery
Right
Mud
Feel
Cloud
Feels
Burn
Never
Buried
Love
Clouds

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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
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What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.
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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.
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Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
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She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.
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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.
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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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