The Road Goes On Forever For Sting (professional wrestler, now ‘retired’.)   Less carnival than comedy; because when the greasepaint is showered off, the plastic barbed wire locked in the trunk with the real thumb tacks and the rubber baseball bats,   every career that’s by-passed tragedy ends with an old man who’s done the […]

Behind The Bar Paddling in piss, the gents unblocked, I steer a course back behind the bar. Lisa pulls her last half-pint while I count the tips and lock the doors.   We wait for our lifts in the drooling rain. A police car slows down to examine our faces, turning off its siren as […]