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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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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Things
Passings
Keeping
Passing
Population
Learned
Keep
Ends
Going

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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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How do I appear unthreatening when her lover's blood is running down my chin?
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I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents.
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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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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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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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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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In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
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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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It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.
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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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Stop. Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you’re holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop. Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
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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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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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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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