Tender Bartender Tender

The Bartender is a tender tender
who spent his life in other's lives.
He creeks as he flows tales
at the back end of each day.
He sways happily to the bar's soundtrack
in his rocking and rolling chair.
Listeners are plowed as he speaks
their ears to grow sympathy
for daily doses of alcohol.

He was dismembered long ago,
but remembered the pieces
of other's lives and limbs.
He was the sound bored
wouldn't be able to stand.
He peddled stories like lemonade;
helping quench thirst for forgotten humanity.
Now he tends sheep
and keeps them from becoming wolves.