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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.

Isaac Marion

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
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Seattle
Washington
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Tossing
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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 sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?
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You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.
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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'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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You might say that death has relaxed me.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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