“Chanteuse” © Keith Nunes

 

Alice in a stew

How mean they were to her,
Alice wandering the land
Wondering all along
‘Are they ever going to
Give me back the LSD
They stole from me?’

She fell down the bunny tunnel,
A nightmare in a torture chamber,
Alice’s head bound for the guillotine,
But she escaped, once free of the absurdity
She feasts on shrooms and
Squelches inside the rabbit stew.

 

Keith Nunes (Aotearoa-New Zealand) has had poetry, fiction, haiku and visuals published around the globe. He creates ethereal manifestations as a way of communicating with the outside world. Nunes is entertained by Kurt Vonnegut’s hopes, Cole Swenson’s descriptions, Lydia Davis’s prose and Denis Johnson’s heroines, and so on.