Shame, shame & a lousy nickname

An off-Covering Tracks collection I'm putting together after a suggestion by jack-cade. Fair bit of sexual content. There we go. Hopefully that should draw the punters in.

Cherry

R v Cort

No, no, you see it wasn't kidnapping per se. He stopped at bus stops where women - no, listen.

A Damaged Piano

The Sinatra grin of a new baby grand, buffed with chamois, or kid and a kiss, the lid a freshly snown-on hillside, my fingers ski-ing on its gloss, that's it, and by God, nothing else.
Cherry

Candida

Call off the multi-billion dollar hunt for slivers of Martian ice, for abductees and floating rings of lights. The aliens are in my cunt. Inexplicable ectoplasm,
Cherry

Content and Container

Plain fucking awful, this propless play. Such advances: anatomically correct plugs, cosmetically tested lube, booting spit or piss and fist or microphone and broom into space. And we lie here:

Contra Natura

We don't all want to. We don't slaver and shiver at the prospect. I know you've been told by a thorough cross-section of media and mates that to offer it once is to snag us for life, as if
Cherry

Shame, shame & a lousy nickname

Based on a true story. Title poem from the new collection.

The Flasher

“Exhibitionism is the seeking of love” (Clifford Allen) The dragon punch of the headline double knots the case. It goes to court next week, but SHAME and TOP JUDGE are already ingrained
Cherry

On grinding at sixteen

Pippa and me, her three years younger and still more accustomed to vodka, wandering a field full of tents, glow sticks and bands you'd sort-of heard of and didn't feel like sweating for.

Splitting The Ego With Mary

Among my mother's pansies, down the ribbony path, squirrelled behind the privet, she slipped down her underwear. Like a cat, watching the pointing finger instead of its subject,
Cherry

Godemiché, or I fell on it

A separate wing has been built to house these types, who blush at the door, walk funny, who used to be able to hide what had happened from other patients.