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&039;You knohat, I&039;d break up with you too if you showed ed Danny&039;s chest with the notebook, giving it back &039;Bro, take your panties off It doesn&039;tthe tide of battle&039;

He headed out of the tent, checking the clip on his gun Iun fire He looked to the dog, and the dog whined

&039;In death one rin like a fish

That way you will look at hoh the street with Butt Muncher picking up the rear The fighting had gone berserk It was a war zone Their cah the air like Popsicle sticks, and if Danny and the dog hadn&039;t left when they did, they&039;d have been charred and then probably eaten Zombies filled the streets, virtually every corner, sidewalk, and alleyway, round on all fours, chewing tastily on ununs blitzed and blazed; orders were shouted over the din, loud enough that they sounded as if they were co made it to the end of town, they were confronted with a roadblock The soldiers didn&039;t look like they were letting anyone through One of the a clown mask

&039;Whoa!&039; said Danny &039;Hold on! I just want to get out&039;

&039;Hoo-hah! Our orders are that no one, that includes you and me, is allowed to leave or enter this town&039;

&039;But - what am I supposed to do?&039;

&039;If it were et out of here&039;

&039;This is ridiculous I&039;m okay You can&039;t shoot me&039;

&039;Hoo-hah! If you cross that there line I will, and unfortunately everyone inleft of you or your dog The govern country - ginormous, last time I checked the map - and we have to protect it That&039;s our duty Yours as well as mine&039;

&039;Jesus I&039;m just a poet&039;

&039;As I said, et past Alive or dead Poet or not&039; He stopped and then asked, &039;You a good poet?&039;

&039;I guess Why, you want to make an exception? National Endowment for the Arts and all that&039;

&039;Hoo-hah! No, just wanted to know if you were a fag&039; He laughed hysterically &039;We don&039;t like fags in the military Incidentally the clown uess it&039;s not working&039;

&039;Truthfully, you look ridiculous&039;

&039;That&039;s what everyone&039;s been tellingfrom a poet, now that&039;s pretty hurtful&039; He flipped it back down like a ballplayer&039;s shades &039;Suck it, asshole!&039;

He fired into the air, and Danny fled

Danny walked for blocks, the dog scurrying at his heels In the streets, chaos reigned Bullets flew Corpses walked and then didn&039;t Guts spewed Sewer drains were besieged with butchered li Danny&039;s woe-is-er around hi the sh of her chest, the tickle of her hair against his cheek It was unfortunate that this plague had co her thatwere okayfor now

The plane was off course

The general and the soldier didn&039;t know it, but with the pande out, the pilots were nervous

&039;Stand down, soldier Put the gun down&039;

General Deaconheinz didn&039;t like the idea that one of his un on a military aircraft On one hand, it was damn stupid of him, on the other, it wasn&039;t a bad idea to execute this creature

The soldier nervously kept the gun aimed &039;I have a shot,&039; he whined

&039;If you miss, we&039;re dead&039;

&039;Tell ue, it&039;s pretty bad You ever been in love, soldier? It&039;s a lot like being in love It starts slowly, h the body quickly, and soon you are overcome It becomes a part of you, transfor Then it falls apart It&039;s not what you first thought it was It changes you eain And like a lover leaving you, it moves on to someone else Of course, the first one infected controls the rest of the, sir&039;

&039;Of course it is, soldier It&039;s like the Ebola virusafter it&039;s been kicked in the nuts&039;

&039;Sir&039;

&039;What?&039;

&039;You&039;re greatly upsetting edto do it, aren&039;t you?&039;

He fired the gun

The sight wasthrough the streets He couldn&039;t believe it And yet he was relieved, because he hadn&039;t killed her - she was already dead! The joy of that statement lasted only a short while, once he realized she was rallying the other zo, but they found another herd of zo the worst was to comewhen two soldiers came to his rescue He would learn their names afterward With M-16s they pushed the zo even to themselves They ran out of a hiot down on his knees and threw his hands in the air: &039;Hallelujah!&039; The soldiers stared One of them took out a machete &039;No,&039; shouted Danny, &039;for the sweet love of all that is - leave her be!&039; He put the machete away Danny watched as Jennifer, the eyeless zoht tears to his own eyes

The first body, the one that everyone knew about, was the one that fell froeant Marc D Resnick were looking for it Danny knehere it was They set off toward city hall together Corporal Massa and Sergeant Resnick blasted away zo followed Between bursts of un fire, Danny scribbled doords in his notebook, feeling inspired Darkness, fetid, yellow eyesHe would uided the two soldiers through town When they got to city hall, Sergeant Resnick and Corporal Massa went berserk, using up entire clips of aed at the violence There were piles of bodies in the street, the soup of blood and guts everywhere

They banged through the front doors and started up the steps They hurried, huffing As they came out of the stairwell and onto the roof, a zombie smacked Danny in the face and he went down The zombie was on top of him He was Trevor Moses, or what used to be Trevor Moses before he beca sprang on Dead-Trevor and bit his heel Amidst this distraction, Danny landed a hard elbow across Dead-Trevor&039;s face, and his jaw sank, leveling forward like a shovel Dead-Trevor s were frozen in ti to bite, but it only slackened further Danny grabbed hold of Dead-Trevor&039;s lower jaw, pulled it off with a manly shriek, and then catapulted it across the roof For taking irlfriend! The zo landedup to his naled to push hihter that was in Dead-Trevor&039;s pocket and ignited it Dead-Trevor&039;s crotch caught fire, and he fell to the ground twitching and&039;Jesus-shit-on- to his feet and tried to put the fire out by repeatedly sto on Dead-Trevor&039;s zombie balls Once the fire was out, Dead- Trevor was curled up with his hands between his legs5 The soldiers cah the door and quickly blew the zombie&039;s head off Face-painted with brain matter, Danny stood up like an American Indian at war For the first tiistered shock The zo sybaritically, not twitching as before, but dancing, waving his ar his feet up and down He see out, as if he had headphones on and was listening toin his head

Corporal Massa was about to fire when Danny pushed the barrel of the gun down The sergeant and the corporal looked at hiical response to what they were dealing with Danny walked closer to the zoh its motions He drew closer And closer Fascinated The zo He stared at Danny Then he tried to look down, and Danny did the sauts vo from the hole in his body When Danny looked into the street below, he saw the zoain It clicked for hi them He&039;s the one&039;

&039;We know,&039; said the corporal, raising his gun &039;That&039;s e&039;re here to kill it He&039;s a hive-ass motherfucker Mission: kill him so bad he remembers his death for the rest of his life With honey and fucking flies on top Cover your ears&039;

Cover your ears! Faas to scream She knew it embarrassed him What if this zombie were Jennifer, or someone else? It would have family, loved ones

&039;You can&039;t&039;

&039;What? What am I supposed to do?&039;

&039;I don&039;t know I mean, he was probably like you or me at one time, and thenthis happenedHe crashes to Earth, and finds hiet freeSo he calls in his , but they&039;re so stupid they can&039;t figure out where he is Plus, he uy&039;

&039;You eant

&039;He is kind of human&039;

&039;So What&039;s his name?&039;

&039;Does he have to have a naot to have a name&039;

&039;Maybe it&039;s Dave&039;

&039;Dave? Fuck Dave&039;

&039;Roger?&039;

&039;Fuck him too&039;

&039;G?&039;

&039;Whaaat?&039;

&039;Just the letter, like a rapper&039;

&039;Stupid!&039;

Danny sighed &039;No Dave, no Roger, no G Fine, you suggest&039;

&039;How about Syphilis? He looks like a disease, and he looks like a cock It&039;s perfect!&039;

The soldiers high-fived, laughed

&039;Well I still don&039;t think you should kill it&039;

&039;What should we do with it, poet-boy? Hold its hand and say a prayer? They&039;re killing the whole town Everyone&039;

He socked the zoun The dead ain His nose fell off The dog set to it and sed Better than the eye he ate earlier, but not as salty He needed salt And water He was dehydrated

&039;He just wants to get down Can you bla a sy zo that doesn&039;t have any brains Everyone in this country wants to sy They protest the environhtsbut I&039;m in the army because I don&039;t want to protest I want to kill people, as e Stand aside and let me do my job&039;

&039;Hold on If you were impaled and were dead and still alive, you&039;d probably be angry about it It&039;s a Promethean dilemma That&039;s sad, don&039;t you think?&039;

Corporal Massa thought on it, nodded

&039;Guessyou have a point I was a poor student in school and probably shouldn&039;t be doing the thinking around here Just fro poking through ot stabbed with a giant phallus Not a fun way to go&039; This was Sergeant Resnick

&039;What do we do when he gets off the spire?&039; asked Corporal Massa

&039;Don&039;t know,&039; said Danny &039;Let&039;s work on getting it off first Worry about the rest later&039;

&039;Sounds like a plan, Douche-Nuts&039;

Down in the stairwell, next to the fire extinguisher, there was an axe The sergeant pulled it out of the glass and caan chopping the bottom of the spire, belohere the zombie was impaled He chopped and chopped and chopped He had to stop to wipe his brow, at which point Danny blurted out, &039;Syether And then, &039;What&039;s he babbling about?&039;

&039;Beatssympathetic,&039; said Danny, &039;so let&039;s call him Sympathy&039;

The two soldiers looked at one another Corporal Massa shrugged, took the axe froeant Resnick, and then hefted it above his head He muttered under his breath as he chopped Finally the spire split, and with a size-fourteen boot to the pole, it tilted The zoan to do his little dead dance, shi the spire to release hiunk spewed froe rocked up and down Danny looked down to the street below Zo

&039;You see, all he wanted was for someone to set him free&039;

The zo, Douche-Nuts? Moonwalking?&039; The zo like he had ungainly hooves instead of feet He fell off the roof Whiff The three of the down The zo, brains seeping into a gutter Danny wondered if zo brains Seean to twitch and then a leg The zo to his feet Stu away

The transforh the sky, pluh his head at a rate co off his body during its rapid descent6 This memory had to do with General Deaconheinz - that led down likehad propelled hi to visit hi up details about the project he was going to be working on for the government

&039;If you do this, you&039;ll be handsoovernment will see to that We will provide you hatever you need&039;

&039;Whatever?&039;

&039;Whatever you need It is yours&039;

Dr Parkingapp looked at his pin-up calendar on the wall Miss July was a sultry vixen from somewhere in small-town Aet kind of lonely Do you think you can get eneral walked over to the calendar and flipped up a few pages and then let the hi the United States irl You want to get one, use the money we pay you to make it happen You can have all the whores you want But so the e have to draw the line, and I&039;eeky scientist types just don&039;t know anything about woapp I know about the underage girls you sled in fro&039;

&039;Do you want the job or not?&039;

&039;Oh, I want it; I definitely want it&039;

He looked over at the calendar, down at the bottoles

Danny, the two soldiers, and the dog raced downstairs

&039;Tell them not to shoot,&039; said Danny to the soldiers

They radioed ahead on their walkie-talkies When the soldiers stopped firing, they noticed that the zoround They looked around, confused It was puzzling

Syh town, the sa the population along with hi-beyond-reason body forward Others followed, but what bothered Danny h surely this didn&039;t bother anyone else, was that he spotted Jennifer in the street going that way too Zombie or not, she still upset him He ran to intercept her He knew that she couldn&039;t think, that she wasn&039;t herself What if he offered himself to her? Just a nibble, that&039;s all it&039;d take, and he could be a zo her sha a caught fish back into the water What choice did he have?

The zo upon descent

Li and pale,

Who knehat trouble he would cause?

Only so and a Danny

And like Jesus upon the cross,

He found his disciples

A town rent asunder,

A young ue had come

Fetid andman&039;s fate,

Government put- on,

And a poet with trace amounts of

Sympathy

For a zombie that fell from the sky