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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Change
Wanting
Step
Taking
Steps
Two

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My favorite songs change every year.
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In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
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I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming the scraps of beauty make it worse.
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No praise, no blame. Just so.
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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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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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In my mind I am eloquent I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.
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You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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Warm Bodies ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written.
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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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I wish people were willing to dig a little deeper than the surface elements of a premise before tossing one story in with another.
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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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What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the bigger picture or you are gonna sink.
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We have to remember everything. If we don't, by the time we grow up it'll be gone forever.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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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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