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You might say that death has relaxed me.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Might
Relaxed
Death

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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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I wince at her use of the word human. I've never liked that differentiation. She is living and I'm dead, but we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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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 was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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It's hard to take your life so seriously when you can see it all at once.
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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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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It’s sad to see them staring wistfully through the window when the door isn’t locked.
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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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Just... ate, M says, frowning at me a little. Two days...ago. I grab my stomach again. Feel empty. Feel... dead. He nods. Marr...iage.
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