The Man Cave with RD Armstrong
Bar Story #2
The guy on the stool
Three spots away
Is telling his new
Friends – a guy and
A gal – a story that
Sounds fishy to me.
He’s a little drunk
And talking louder
Than necessary
Since the bar is
Quiet at 5 PM.
The story is about
How he knifed a
Guy for hitting
On his old lady
And dumped him
At Sardine Cove.
The gal says
You’re kidding right?
And he says
Naw I’d never kid
About something like that.
She is leaning over to
Hear his response
And her shirt is riding up
Revealing her shield
Later I was talking
To the bartender
I knew that story was fishy
How’d you know that?
He heard that same story
A few nights ago from
Another guy here.
Why would you brag
About something like that?
Bartender didn’t even bat an eye.
Sure beats sitting at home
In the dark listening to
The walls move.
–RD Armstrong
RD Armstrong AKA Raindog
Published in over 300 journals, zines and anthologies and Ezines, Blogs and websites, Raindog has four new books out in 2008: Fire and Rain Vols. 1 & 2 (Selected Poems – 1993-2007); On/Off the Beaten Path (Road Poems) and El Pagano (Short Stories). Aside from that he operates the Lummox Press which publishes the Little Red Book series (59 titles) and has just published The Long Way Home – the Best of the Little Red Book series 1998-2008 edited by RD Armstrong (selections from the best of the first ten years); New and Selected Poems by John Yamrus, and The Riddle of the Wooden Gun by Todd Moore. All can be viewed/purchased at http://www.lummoxpress.com
Long Way Home, Raindog…is there another Tom Waits fan among us?