Bar None

while sitting at any local "watering hole" you may have encountered a similar scenario...

Welcome , my friend

     What can I get you?

You look sad and forlorn,

     Need a beer sir, I bet you

So many sad stories

     Have been told at this bar,

Yet the story you are telling

     Is the saddest thus far

My duty as your bartender

     Bring you back from the brink

What pays all my bills

     Is the amount that you drink

Here is a free beer

     On the house, we will sip

Tell me more of your pain

     While increasing my tip

Please excuse me

      For there are other lost souls

Can I get you another?

     For you are still in control

One lost soul that I speak of

     Opposite end of the bar

He has been here for hours

     Now he heads for his car

Now that he is gone

     Finally, out of my hair

You can continue to bore me

     With your saddest despair

Pardon me, for a minute

     For I know what he drinks

Only three stools away

    Of rum , does he stink

I listen closely

    Accidently overhear

That his current addiction

    Had started from beer

This friend to him

    Only friend with a shaker

Fills him up to the brim

    His tips, a big moneymaker

He came in

    Already reeking of rum

You take every dollar

    For he is only a bum

Now that you are tipsy

    Informed of the last call

Do you want one for the road

    Or buy rounds for us all

The lost soul that had left

    About two hours ago

Was his own designated driver

    On the phone, he is talking slow

See, he is using his one call

    While pacing the jail floor

In drunken stupor he proclaims

    He has killed family of four

Bartender emphatically announces

    For I have done no wrong

I serve fun in the form of ounces

    Just a place to come to belong

All I try to do

     Is pour hours of unbridled fun

The lights are down , the bar is closed

    Responsibility...BAR NONE...