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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.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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Seattle
Washington
Idealist
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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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Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know why you . . . say good-bye. I say . . . hello.” Her lip quivers between reactions, but she ends up with a reluctant smile. “God you're a cheeseball. But seriously, R—
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It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.
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What's the point of trying to fix a world we're so briefly in?
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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
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It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.
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No praise, no blame. Just so.
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Writing isn't letters on paper. It's communication. It's memory.
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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's wrong with people? she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?
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I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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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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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.
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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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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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