'no bones about it' you make me realize just how insignificant i truly am. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon....
'no matter the label' scotch goes down smoother the more pain you’re in. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon....
'slice' we all need to bleed out our own way. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon....
'yeah, it’s fucked up' things were much simpler when i harvested hate and not this hateful thing called love. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon....
(from my collection 'Scotch and Scars') 'ghost whisperer' the dead are all around us. look at the shattered faces haunting their glasses at the bar. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
(from my collection 'A Distilled Spirit') 'you' in a trick of light i found you pouring venom from calloused hands ripping faith from gibbous moon i’ve loved you ever since. your cruel grace matched by even the coldest of gray januaries and as the sun died you spoke to me the foulest nothings whispered from your alligator snout. you poured acid in my ears to quell my methods of thinking when you knew full well i had no free will at all. chant a new song of turpitude blasphemous act; i’ll love yo...
(from my collection 'Scotch and Scars') 'soul at the bar' he mutters and hides beneath that old chevy hat of his i figure it’s the only true comfort he’s got left judging the way life has imploded his face he drinks bud pisses politics in the stall his marriage emptied in the shot glasses turned upside down before him he mutters and draws his face in like a turtle but life has left no hard shell to protect him; just his chevy hat and every ounce of sorrow americana has to offer. #barflypoet #jos...
(from my collection 'A Distilled Spirit') 'empty, still you try' my bones gleam my eyes ache as your unwavering light searches across my pores. you curse my resolve while you continue your bloodletting— when will you learn my veins dried a long time ago. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and ...
(from my collection 'Scotch and Scars') 'bank account' all the money in the world why would he go and hang himself? i pondered the question sipped my scotch while conversation surged through the bar an incoming tide of bewilderment and bullshit. i had one more for the road. sometimes i drive the highway when it is empty and dark with my eyes closed tight. i do this without a buck to spare in my wallet. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved...
(from my collection 'Scotch and Scars') 'truth serum' i will not diffuse the truth dropping cubes into my scotch dirtying the amber of my reality muddling the legitimacy between us we could never coexist; you, cranberry splashes me, neat dollops of the way it is. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Sc...
'ticket to shit town' it’s far easier to accept the destination than the drive there. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
(from my collection 'A Distilled Spirit') 'mercy killing' do you remember that day you shushed me? silk finger on my lips stilling my pulse clouds fell and you caught them, dabbed tears from my eyes, stole the sun's rays, stabbed them through my heart. mercy killing, so was whispered still i, i could not talk, not with your fist down my windpipe, sweet charm tearing me apart. i should have thanked you, admitted you were never to blame still i, i was the quiet one and you, you so insane. #barflyp...
'absence' it isn’t in what you say it’s in what you don’t. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon.
'a matter of perception' the gloaming beckons lullaby calling of persistence; i long to soar in this purple half-light rather be lost in the rouge of the setting sun. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
(from my collection 'A Distilled Spirit) 'perils of greasy calamari' he didn't so much kiss her from across the bar than he devoured her face; the calamari i'd just eaten tasting even greasier on my tongue. i swear if he kissed her one more time i'd push my fingers down my throat. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless othe...
'give that fucker a handkerchief' that sonofabitch sat at the end of the bar sneezed his holy fucking ass off sprayed the air with shards of snot while he mangled lyrics to bennie and the jets and as every explosion tore apart the inner linings of his nasal membranes what remained of dense brain cells dirtied the motherfuck of the walls. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted;...
from my collection 'A Distilled Spirit' 'the tree' her face was riddled. dug into her cheek an empty heart like lovers carve into a tree. there were no initials no dates just old skin rough and crumbly like bark. she stood alone bowed an ancient tree in the forest awaiting a fall no one would ever hear. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chose...
'mercy, please' what impression have i left on you? what will you see when i'm a shell of myself and you're coming into bloom? will it be a happy thing or a ghost that fills your heart? i pray i have done enough to walk beside you all through life and beyond— for all my faults, i have lived only for you. (for my daughter) #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is o...
'edits won’t help you' i say much with little. you say little with much. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'extinguished' hold to our darkest hour the only light these embers burnt before our time. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'antiseptic' it is not the acidity of the coffee that i taste rather your words repeating themselves. a fine scotch early this morn would do rather nicely killing the bad taste in my mouth. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at ...
'no sense' familiar only with boys and their dry humps, she had no sense of a man and a good fuck. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'wolf' when i revealed to you the beast a fearful exhilaration you had within your heart; when i revealed to you the man you simply tore me apart. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'anchor' oh how you tread water oh how you kick to survive but they pull you back in don’t they, with their tangle of ineptitudes and lies. oh how you tread but the tide has come rising and you’ve really no clue how to swim. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit...
'death before our time' i never wished to bury you not even as i sang your funeral hymn it became all too apparent that you needed out of your misery a mercy killing the humane thing to do though i questioned my judgment as dirt filled your throat. i wanted you forever; still do—your ghost provides comfort on days i am lost and the grace of your soft touch still lingers atop my skin. all i have left this mound of dirt i have dug; your voice fills these death chambers— a reminder of things once g...
'immortal' wine washes her tongue as hips create music heard only by gods. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'chicory' into his cup he pours her chicory kisses to savor. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'heart crushing truth' i do not want to die. i thought i was a man but when my father spoke those words i did not feel a man at all. i became again a wide-eyed six-year-old who believed god was magic and life remained the same waking in the morn as the night before closing lids to it. i wonder to this day if only i had stayed asleep might my father still be alive. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedit...
'you all have no place with me' everyone has something to say except when the time comes to say it. #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. * Poetry served to you raw and unedited from the moment crafted; all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted. * ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A Distilled Spirit’ in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon....
'need' you believed me gone gone relic; forlorn by lords of depravity keepsake plucked from dregs of gutter whores and impoverished mimes gone raped; whisper of promise possession, tarnished and forgotten atop your bureau fool— i have bred within you all the while gratifying your need sucking you dry you sang of me maggot's lament begged of me torturer's divine so i ask you now who is your molester of truths your addict of lies? #barflypoet #josephapinto www.josephpinto.com © Copyright Joseph A....
