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It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
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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.
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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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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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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.
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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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Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.
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What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?
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I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
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Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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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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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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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 want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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