Alan struggled up the single flight of stairs to his flat, unlocked the door, went inside and slumped in a chair. Just getting to his flat was made difficult by the plaster cast on his leg, his painful arm and his lack of fitness, having lain in bed in the hospital for 4 or 5 days. He still looked a sight - the bruising on his face was coming out, but the doctor had said that in a couple of weeks everything would be fine, apart from the broken leg which would take a bit longer to heal.
Alan relaxed, looked around the flat, knowing his parents would drop by later to get him something to eat. He noticed the bit of paper on the floor where it had probably fallen just 5 days ago. The paper represented the beginning of his problems, the problems which had left him beaten up, leg broken and job-less.
5 days ago he had been at work, the day no different from normal. Working at the computer, dealing with phone calls, chatting to colleagues - and the brief meeting in the foyer. Someone trying to sell stationary, stationary they didn't want. It took 20 minutes to get rid of him.
Alan had returned to the office, only to be summoned to see the boss. He handed him the piece of paper, and asked what he made of that. He read:
She walked on ahead of me
And then her glory I could see
Emphasised as her legs moved free
The movement of a queen.
Her skirt was wrapped around
The most beautiful ass I've found
So full and curved and round
The wonder of my day.
She walked, it rolled, my gaze
Is held as her ass sways
My mind fixed in a haze
Of watching Rachel's orbs.
I dream of spreading her wide,
To the privacy all women hide
To kiss the rose denied
To all but a favoured few.
I dream of entering her ass
In the hole too tight to pass
With my weapon, hard of mass
To take her virgin rectum.
I'll Bugger the slut!
Slide my cock in her butt!
Put my seed in her gut!
And hope she screams for more.
Rachel - one day I will fuck your face,
And one day fuck your cunt with my mace
Then, Rachel, my cock will win the race
To own your asshole as well.
Alan frowned. His boss explained: "this, um, poem, was found on your computer screen, when Rachel went to use it. You are accused of writing this, and this sort of thing means instant dismissal."
The problem was - Rachel was a member of staff. Alan pictured her: she was tall, and when younger would have been shapely. Now in her late forties, she had filled out, but in all the right places. And yes -particularly her ass. It was full, curved, the sexiest ass he could picture. Rachel herself was sweet and friendly, married to Brian who worked in a factory, or something. The office didn't mix socially particularly, but she was part of a friendly group at work.
As Alan left the office, he had thought more about Rachel. Yes, she did have a great ass, and yes, the poem was exactly what he wanted to say. The office knew she was a virgin. Not a "no sex" virgin, rather it was clear the "alternative hole" had never been entered! It had come out of a conversation at work, when three men were getting a bit coarse, a conversation which Rachel was on the edge of. Alan didn't know how the conversation had got to that point, but one of the men said : "I bet every man dreams of buggery..........."
There was tutting, he was soundly told off by the male "boss," but Rachel's comment had simply been that her Brian would never dream of a thing like that. It was an obvious pointer to her "rectal virginity!"
Maybe it was that which added to the thought that she had, without doubt, a magnificent ass, and may have inspired the doggerel on the computer.
Just as Alan reached the door of his flat a man's voice rang out - someone had been waiting for him. "Hey, Alan, what's the meaning of this?"
The man looked familiar as he waved a sheet of paper in Alan's face.
"How dare you write this stuff..........." Alan could just make out the heading on the paper - "Rachel's Rump." He had just enough time to think it wasn't the best ever title, before he felt the punch.
"Don't you ever do anything like this to my wife again, or it will be worse..........."
The second punch to Alan's stomach bent him double, the third dropped him to the floor. Then the kicks, to head, body - in seconds Alan was hurting, bleeding, passing out.........
A neighbour found Alan, so a nurse told him, 20 minutes later and called the ambulance. He woke up on a couch in the emergency room, with a couple of nurses watching, and a policeman in the background.
The policeman asked "Can I speak to him now?" The nurses refused, they considered he wasn't ready to talk yet.
Alan was grateful for the pause. Should he say who it was? Who he thought it was? Could he face the questioning, the court case, the possible aggravation, for something quite frankly he would have done, if it had been his wife who had been insulted.
Alan said nothing of significance, and the police presence disappeared. Five days of treatment, and he was ready to go home.
But there was one problem that had made him say nothing, and left him confused. He hadn't written the poem.
Someone had written the poem and it had appeared on his computer. The five days in hospital had been a jumble of confused thoughts - perhaps it was the confusion which stopped him shopping Brian. Who had written it? Why? Who had put it on the computer? Why? Was it some poem off the internet, or was it written specially? Had it been done for a joke? Or to get him into trouble? Who had access to his computer?
Perhaps he should check it out on google........................... It was too late, his parents had arrived, and were chatting away as his mother made him something to eat, and generally fussed over him. Alan quickly hid the paper with the poem - he hadn't even told them he had been sacked.
After his parents fussing and chatter, Alan could only face sleep - he took himself to bed, and slept solidly. It wasn't until next morning he could turn his computer on.
Turn on computer, wait for the desktop, click on the web-browser, get up the google panel......... Alan was confused. What should he try in google? Perhaps the first line of the poem - Alan typed the words in. There were 26 million entries! Put speech marks around. Four entries - but nothing relevant.
Try the second line. Less replies this time - only 22 million! Speech marks - no entries at all!
For the next ten minutes Alan tried different things, but could find nothing.
Perhaps he should try something different. Alan put the name "Rachel" into the search box and clicked. 80 million entries! Rachel and Buggery. 19,000 entries!
At that moment Alan's phone went: he turned to pick it up. It was his mother just making sure he was okay. But as he turned he clicked the mouse accidentally, and a new panel came up. Google news. The search words were still "Rachel" and "Buggery" but this time there were only three entries. The third one was dated 2004. It caught Alan's eye. He opened the article.
"...............Mark Standing's appeal against wrongful dismissal was dismissed following a complaint from colleague Rachel Foulkes that he had written obscene poetry about her and left it on his computer. It was considered that the severity of the offence was such that instant dismissal was considered the appropriate action of the employer................"