I wonder what it’d be like to stand on a human face Would my foot sink right through their flesh Leave a hole circled with broken teeth Gnawing the empty air? Seems no different Someone writhes on the floor in a club Is pronounced dead the next day Exorcised ******* It’s where they go to get ****** up right? Tequila and lime Body shot Set it on fire A worm died so some middle-aged manager Could fail at recapturing her youth ****** up, let’s get ****** up Bones bleeding through the sleeves Stuffing flesh into mouths The river overflows with fast food wrappers And rotting couches Sit on the pavement and ***** in your lap It’s what you came here for Is she going to jump? Take a picture Hope the whole roof collapses We’re trying to ******* sleep, a neighbour yells before slamming the door Feels awkward and steps off the roof Lies on the floor of her room Slits her wrists instead He’d been angry since he moved in Kept finding apple cores in his yard Sometimes it’s Christmas here And the entire city decides to take part in a ritual Where the vacuity of existence is concentrated in the shopping districts, so everyone can feel awful together It’s really something A black heat descends on Dunedin And smothers all the children in their cribs Teenagers light up and skate through the throngs of blank-faced adults Too deeply enamoured with percentage discounts to even notice their bags filling with the blood of foreigners Did you know one million Chinese children die a year from vitamin A deficiency? Good thing we’re buying all these Chinese made goods Sometimes the smog is so strong And the water so red That everyone begins to think the clear days are the strange ones Sometimes the power poles collapse and generations of children are born sterile and genderless The fathers all choke their wives with plastic bags And no one questions them This existence is nauseating No wonder your mother hung herself No wonder your uncle ***** your sister then hacked his own head off None of this is real A guy was hospitalised because someone mistook him for a child molester Smashed his face up so much he lost seven teeth and got brain damage He’d been a famous writer before And now he can’t speak Isn’t that the funniest thing you’ve ever heard? Doesn’t this existence make you want to breakdown into laughter and throw your head against the wall until there’s nothing left?