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A Poor Man's Bar - As told by Chuck Richardson

This is a video interpretation of a poem called "A Poor Man's Bar". The paintings of the characters are friends and not the real people in the poem. "Burn It On Down" is one of my original songs. And the band at the end playing "Stormy Monday" is Gunpoint with Jerry Branch singing and me sitting in on Hammond organ. _______________ Megumi and I had just begun, what would turn out to be, a nearly two-year separation. It was the hardest thing I'd ever gone through. I took work with FEMA, after Hurricane Marilyn devastated the islands, just to get as far away from my problems as possible. I wrote this poem while taking refuge in the best little bar in the US Virgin Islands. They'd give you the bottle, and you poured your own drink. I stumbled across it on the first night because it was the only place open. But as time went on, and conditions improved, it was the only place I wanted to be. I'd sit at the end of the bar and jot down notes about the day's activities when inevitably someone nearby would draw me, first, into their voice and, finally, into their story. The characters I met there revealed a little more of themselves each day. I guess I was one of those characters as well. It was a strange place and a very strange time. I know the Poor Man's Bar still exists today and I often wonder if any of these people still haunt it.