A bar is usually understood
To be a longish piece of wood
Or metal too or some material
Rigid and used typically
To obstruct or fix tightly
Or for a weapon you might use to kill!
Then again it also could
Be something better than just wood
Like the counter found inside a pub,
Restaurant or cafe where
You might buy yourself a beer
Or if you're hungry fetch yourself some grub!
And if whilst there you saw outside
One you'd rather not abide
You might like to bar the entry way,
Which is the other meaning for
"Bar", which means to block the door
In the hope that they might go away.
Or if you're more up front you could
Go out with a bar of wood
And bar them from the pub forever or
You may say, "Hey, go away!
You're barred from here until late May
A hundred years from now and maybe more!"
And so that's all bar one last way
You might use "bar" for today
And that is in the case of an exception
As in "This bar is open for
All bar one, so lock the door
Should you see him come in this direction!"
By Kerin Gedge
