Barmaid

Barmaid, Is your life a peg of wine To drink, Is to pour wine into a tumbler And to serve wine Your life, To keep the alcoholic beverages Behind the bar And handling the drunk people, Hearing unwanted capers and babbling And sometimes brawls taking place, You as a witness marking them All but silently, People getting emotional Or overexcited Or quarrelling Or vomiting? They too are drunk And you too are As one dealing in wine Cannot, Which is but quite natural, They coming and ordering for And you bringing in, Serving them Sparkling liquor Poured from a bottle Into a tumbler To their cheers, But I know, They will not cheer, But will quarrel finally As they are not peg-takers But the bottle-emptier. .