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Coma Wall

from Coma Wall by Uboa

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what if the person you love
was not and never will be
good enough?
what if nobody will complete you
what if nobody will ever love you
as much as their own hand
as much as shopping
as much as sleeping in
they hold you and never feel warm
they don’t get the poetry you wrote
they laugh, but they might be faking it
do they love who you are, or what you are?
are you together because you want to be
or have to be?
they say: you shouldn’t be alone
yet you learnt to enjoy solitude

but that is something you are not allowed to like

so you cave in

you ask somebody to watch a movie with you
you watch it
you talk in the hope that you have similar interests
even if you agree on everything
they will never understand you
they just get used to you
you become a habit
so do they
like the endless perpetuation of the human race

more people do not make the world more complete
you both feel empty
so you fill yourselves with children
who are empty too
you can’t fill a hole with holes
they take your money
they give you something to boast about to childless strangers
unless they die
then you have to say they were everything
and that you are nothing without them
but you are nothing, even with them
both of you are
nothing is ever good enough

especially not you


* * *




I tried laughing the other day
ended up coughing, hold the applause
push them around
that migrant janitor
that grinning Mohammed
breathe in recycled air

in a plastic box lit
like eternal midday
a confirmed miracle
bruised and purpled
swollen like a bee sting
we ran out of zip-lock bags
but we always had more bodies
so we built more walls
to keep out the poor
a mother screamed
as her son was scraped along the floor
an obese idiot laughed
bloated and asymmetrical
they’ll take you to the morgue with helicopters
to the comedy hospital
with elephant tranquillisers
and surplus chromosomes
I saw you and laughed
then choked

the great toilet-mother
now an obscene shadow
intrusive like a noise
you cannot block out
rancid youthful succour
for a placid death
larynx clogged with drool
that real grinning winner
in a real smart suit
paediatric gynaecologist

professional as hell
looking good in that suit
no matter how hard
you shut your eyes
I’ll always see that image
in a titillating light
even if you censor it
it’s still negatively there
suture those peepers
impetuous priest

anorexic arms
bulimic teeth
be less than nothing
be less than me

in the year of Our Lord
witness the aborted birth of Being
flushed down the toilet
nobody ever noticed
that it was god who was
flushed down the great
underground urethra

into the saline womb
of the sea



* * *



like a butterfly tangled in a web
like a bear being drained of bile in his cage

like a dog being choked by her master’s chain

like the neighbour’s cat being drowned in a lake


like a nameless corpse being washed up on the shore

like too many similes and too many metaphors
like a real grinning winner
like a pregnancy scare

like pigs fed to pigs fed to pigs fed to pigs

like being injected with air


like all those stuffed ponies your little sister kept

like falling asleep on your child’s deathbed

like committing suicide by becoming a concept
like carving a god-shaped hole in the middle of your chest


like a planned extinction of me and me alone

like finding bones on the shelves of your family home

like a total blackout on the will to power
like all your teeth falling out in the shower



* * *



nothing will ever spare you from the void
except the void itself

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from Coma Wall, released September 24, 2015
Anita Shao - Voice

Taran - Photography

Tom Vandersluys - Image processing

Gred - Image processing

Xan - Voice, guitars, bass, drums, noise and custom percussion

Thanks to: the above, the Richmond and Yarraville people, family + dog.

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Solo experimental music/noise project formed in 2010. ⚧ ☭ contact: uboatheflesh (at) gmail (dot) com

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