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Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Naked
Crawl
Flesh
Skeletons
Ugly
Anonymous
Inner
Absurdity
Thoughts
Awkward
Escape
Skin
Overwhelms
Skins
Skeleton

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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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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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There’s not really such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people, there’s just like…humanity. And it gets broken sometimes.
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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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Can we really choose anything?' 'Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
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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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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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It's more eerie to be alone in a city that's lit up and functioning than one that's a tomb. If everything were silent, one could almost pretend to be in nature. A forest. A meadow. Crickets and birdsong. But the corpse of civilization is as restless as the creatures that now roam the graveyards.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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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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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good.
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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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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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