Artist By Alan Catlin

 He said

 to me:

 "If you're

 such a

 fucking

 great artist

 why do

 you do this

 I mean 

 what are

 you here?"

 I guessed

 I needed

 the money

 Starving for

 my art didn’t

 appeal to me

 much

Alan Catlin spent 34 years in the trenches working bar wars as a barman in nightclubs, restaurants hotels and local neighborhood Irish bars.  He writes a lot too.