[Surviving Complexity, Afloat of Perplexity]

Surviving Complexity, Afloat of Perplexity

I kick the rhyme's perplexed

may pick me last

i'll pick you next

may have fallen down

but i'm not out yet

there's a million different paths I could have chose

should have pressed the brakes

but never could slow my roll

ended in the hospital

diagnosis was terminal

that was in november

and no I don't wish him ill at all

we were playing with fire

I do admire

everything and everyone

but when the lights had faded

and everyone had gone

I was left with a thing

that would grow unlike an analogue

no dialogue to explain

the things inside my brain

I felt it growing inside

before I got the gram stain

I didn't know its name

but the western blot came

so I called it bill

and made him my enemy

no matter what my friend did to me

won't do well to stew

dwell and I will be through

I stand alone

to face defeat

if I don't get up

on my feet

I was born fighting

and dammit i'll die fighting too

this ain't about glory

it's what I have to do

one day at time

one foot in front of the other

there is no line

this is not over

left, right

left, right

I will survive

through the dismal days

and darkest nights

left, right

left, right

I will never lose

the will to fight

[square root]

i'm gabriel

the intellectual

polyphonal, acetonal

parabol

leave you barely able to follow

said bare and hollow

fusion with volatile molecules

run a mile through the ridicule

i got syllables that ain't billable

this wheat is unmillable

it's almost mathematical

i'm as scary as a square root

[Endless Holidays]

my ex was in mexico. i think there were about five or six christmas parties i was going too.... one of them, there was this gorgeous guy. i mean, just cute and twinky. man. and my mom was helluv trying to hit on him for me. like saying stuff like i could give him a job.... wow. dude and he was hella cute. and, like, my sister and my dad were just sitting on the couches looking over at us with a really concerned expression. they probably saw me resisting the urge to pull the poor dude. or get his phone number or something. lol. it was so tempting that i straight up left early. anyway. yeah. still, five or six holiday parties is way too much.

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Endless Holidays

Gabriel Duncan

Social politics ain't shit

Mix wits with these twits

Might as well skip

To face-lifts

And cheese dips

It's not that this pleasant diversion isn't welcome

The endless social functions

Serve to form fleeting first encounters

With foreign factions of my fraternity

Simply that the frivolity of this moment

And the fragility of our times

Does not mix with this wine

[ZOMBIE: The Incident at Bloody Rock]

Hey Everyone,

I wanted to tell you all about this new story I just put up on a blog called "ZOMBIE: The Incident at Bloody Rock." I'm not really good at summaries or whatever but, this what I can tell you:

The cure for HIV makes zombies. But it's got a twist: hosts that had HIV before getting the new zombie virus are more intelligent than hosts who weren't infected with HIV while living.

The story revolves around a dad and his two sons, the youngest of which has HIV. The kid is getting treatment at a remote children's hospital, under the care of a leading scientist in the field who just found the cure. So the people who put the money into the research, and the hospital, and the government, put a bunch of money into a big event that's closed to everyone but some politicians, diplomats, and the family and friends of the patients. The first injections are recorded by news crews and there's a huge dinner.

But something goes wrong. The kids start getting sick, and all need to be put into critical care. Even those who were outpatients get crammed into the Cancer Ward to make space. And it's pretty much all bad from there.

Check it out if you're interested.

And, uh.... If you're thinking this sounds like that movie, "I Am Legend", all I have to say is this is different. If you read the book that movie was based on, you'll find out it the main character thought the zombies were vampires, and he used the "N" word a lot. Plus, the dude had some issues to begin with. And he wasn't a scientist at all. There was no science at all in the book. So yeah.

I'm mainly influenced by stuff like the Resident Evil series, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, The Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead and other more contemporary works. (Though how that skinny dude got through that one movie with a double-barreled shotgun is beyond me. The reload rate on that is ridiculously slow. Zombieland was the name, right?) Okay... World War Z was pretty cool. But I digress.

ZOMBIE: The Incident at Bloody Rock

Check it out.

--Gabe