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Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Doe
Back
Herpes
Keeps
Coming
Humanity
Beautiful

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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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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below.
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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
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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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We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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I want life and in all its stupid sticky rawness.
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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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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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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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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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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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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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Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
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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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