The Absence Of Abstinence

Time and time again, I check my watch twice before taking a shot. Out of habit there is always a countdown going on in my head. Closing time seems to be fast approaching. At a time like this is when I overheard a story like that, like that of which I am going to try my best to recreate for YOU here . That is right, YOU, a person sitting down or standing up. Eyes moving from left to right, top to bottom, line to line. You of whom would touch a metal pole on a city street in the chill of winter and feel the cold on your flesh. It is from someone like YOU that I heard a story like this.....
Music is full of melody, rhythm, and harmony of course, but in order for the music to be considered good music, all aspects have to be perceived as such by a listener. In no way-shape or shape-form was The Musician in question an artist of good music, the opposite was the general consensus. Being the son of two talented musicians The Musician should have had a fighting chance, but being the youngest of a family with fourteen siblings, all chances dissipated. The talent was soaked up prior to his birth and The Musician only had one real talent. The Musician could tie his shoes faster than anybody in the county. This talent did not take him very far but his popular parents placed The Musician in good standing with local bands and he was accepted into a band. Playing the banjo, terribly, is how The Musician got his start. Years, years, and some days went by and the band's fan base never exceeded twenty-five, to include The Musicians entire family. One day, out of the color blue, The Musician stopped coming to band practice and to gigs. The other band members continued to play and eventually changed their name. The music now seemed so perfect, and their fans increased by the handful at first then by truck-full, house-full, club-full, and eventually by the stadium-full. Perfect melody, rhythm and harmony now reached the ears of listeners and the band became famous. The music not only inspired those who heard it, but it changed the world and everybody in it. Eventually, more sooner than later, the group retired from music on top and never came back down. Once asked what happen to their former band member, the band stated that they never forgot him, they even named themselves after him and his memory, they are now and as long as ever is will be, The Absence Of Abstinence....