Bio
Keith Nunes is a former newspaper journalist who now writes to stay sane. He has been published widely in his home country of New Zealand. He lives in rural Bay of Plenty with the artist Talulah Belle.
Keith Nunes
Whipping Post
I whip myself three times a day
nothing religious
just a fistful of self-loathing
we – my skin and I –
are tortured
there's no racism or nationalism
more, a specific
hatefulness
we'll share a coffin
an inferno and
then there'll be ash
I will hate this too