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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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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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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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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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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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I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.
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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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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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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
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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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If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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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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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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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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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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