Imbecile

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: a foolish or stupid person

... his anger burst forth freely-... "I have behaved like an imbecile!" as per Merriam Webster' Dictionary.

"Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 'Fur Elise' by Mister Frank Bauer, ladies and gentlemen!"

                                    The audience in Club R&C turn their chairs and stop the chatter, laughter and drunkard Ness. He plays the piano as if he were in an orchestra, but a one man band. The moment is truly energetic. The mood lifted of the patrons like a dawn of Friday night's first swig. Audrey rests her elbows raised to her chin, on the piano bar. Staring direct into her boyfriends eyes, she is moved every time he plays the instrument. Club R&C decorated in African black wood, high tops, low seaters a trough for groups lanterns for ambience lighting and an unused DJ booth make up this nineteen forties pub. Now I know I keep referring to it as a pub, and what the heck is someone doing playing that number on a piano there!? Well just explore with me would ya!

Then all of a sudden Frank busts out his guitar and begins to rock out to a Thorogood classic (1)......

                           "Wanna tell you a story
About the house rent blues
I come home one Friday
Had to tell the landlady I done lost my job
She said that don't befront me
Long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent
And out the door I went

So I goes to the landlady
I said, "You let me slide?"
I'll have the rent for you tomorrow
Or the next day I don't know
So said let me slide it on you know people
I notice when I come home in the evenin'
She ain't got nothing nice to say to me
But for five year she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey
I come home one particular evenin'
The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?"
I said, "No, can't find no job
Therefore I ain't got no money to pay the rent"
She said "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"
Said "I seen you today you was standin' on a corner
Leaning up against a post"
I said "But I'm tired, I been walkin' all day"
She said "That don't befront me
Long as I get my money next Friday"
Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent
And out the door I went

So I go down the streets
Down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man, I'm outdoors, you know
Can I stay wicha maybe a couple days?"
He said "Uh, let me go and ask my wife"
He come out of the house
I could see in his face
I knowed it was "no"
He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, an' all"
I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"

So I go back home
I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
She said "Yeah?" I said "Aw yeah"
And then she was so nice
Lord, she was lovey-dovey

So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go
I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-hollerin' about the front rent, she be lucky to get any back rent
She ain't gonna get none of it
So I stop in the local bar, you know, people
I go to the bar, I rent my coke, I call the bartender
I said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
Said, "Whatchoo want?"

"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer"

                                                                                     THE CROWD CHEERS AND THE HOUSE STARTS TO ROCK!!
Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when
I been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin
Gonna get high man, I'm gonna get loose
Need me a triple shot o' that juice
Gonna get drunk, don't you have no fear
I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, one beer

But I'm sittin' there at the bar
I'm gettin' drunk, I'm feelin' mellow
I'm drinkin' bourbon, I'm drinkin' scotch, I'm drinkin' beer
Looked down the bar, here come the bartender
I said "Look man, come down here"
Said "Whatchoo want?"

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