Everyone wants to be a bartender by Alan Catlin

Everyone wants to be a bartender

It must be a great life

I’ll bet all the girls must proposition you

You must overhear some great stories,
some wild conversations

I’ll bet all the waitresses are wild
I hear they’re like nurses,
hot and horny all the time

It must be great to get
all that free money and all
that free booze

You must make crazy tips here

You must be a gambler, who do you like in

Do you know where I can get some
flash women

Who’s your drug connection

I’m short, I know you guys always
have bread

It must be a great life

Yeah, and I’ve been beat up
in some of the best joints in town


 

Alan Catlin worked for the better part of 34 years in his unchosen profession as a barman in and around the greater Albany, NY area. He has published dozens of chapbooks and full-length books focusing on his work and the people he met while laboring in the trenches of bar warfare. Alan is the editor at Misfit Magazine.