barstool

old man on a barstool watching tv, got up and came over to sit closer to me, he said "you look familiar to someone i knew, but when were your age we were older than you, jimmy was twenty and i seventeen, and to us there was nothing but girls and machines, jimmy got married and i went to war, i still don't know what we were doing it for, but if you'll buy me a drink--turkey on ice, then i could give you some advice, "you just stay in the bar, for as long as you can, as long as you're drinking, then you've got the world in your hand, "there's no shame in hanging your world by a string, and you know there's no harm in not thinking a thing, but trying to find a place for yourself in this world, is like trying to make a wife of an american girl, if you'll trade me a drink for a story or two, then you'll know what you need to do, "you just stay in the bar, for as long as you can, you know love is for sissies, it's whiskey that makes you a man", now the old man got up and stumbled out in the street, he'd been drinking all day and left his bar tab with me, i didn't have the money to cover his bill, but i found me a man who looked like me, younger still, and said, "buy me a drink and i'll tell you a tale, about the old man who taught me so well, you just stay in the bar, for as long as you can, hell i know you're a friend, i can tell by the shakes in your hand, you just stay in the bar, for as long as you dare, as long as you're tipping, then you've got a good friend somewhere