Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

this is my trauma process. i stare at it. i drink with it. i allow it to consume me. then i vomit it from every pore and lap it up again.everyone leaves. in silence their song.  ‘in my head' i still lack the suitabilitiesof physical sciencemy eyes of opal fire,conversations rich indistant ink abyss.i pity the childthis small boy within,who as phenomenons gohas yet vanished;for him every straight linemagnetized in terror,every moment a resurrection of atrophy:who will leave nowin what mannerand how silently?an open mouth begins a journey.the mirror,a sentence of death.*‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

here's a poem from my ‘bar observations' pile. yes, it really happened. yes, the dude shred air like nobody's business. and yes, i got all kinds of f***ed up that night.     ‘front row' he played the meanest air guitari ever did see. scotch after scotch i drankand when he paid his tabi begged for a curtain call. *‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

it's too late for that now, isn't it? ‘end of the trek' all i wantis for oneperson to recognizethe amount ofpain i endureon a dailybasis and tohear the wordshow are youbefore i quit. *‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

i want to rip her open…i want to be back inside her skin…‘edacious' a year since we've truly spoken. tack another half just to twist my guts. rationality wipes scores from the wall but fingers persist the death spiral down. a hole to another universe swallowed the sheetrock and it's just as good cause it hides the cavity my fist punched through. i miss you. and if you come back to my world again i'd consume your bones. take in all your cells so no matter what i do that do ain't done alone. pride is the frost that kills the bloom and the ice across our line a reminder our climate askew. i'm used to dragging days and nights i've consumed too much booze but it keeps you from leaving me and condemns me to writing you. just come back. there's a cancer staring at all the restrictions and if only you threw open the same sashes to make yourself as carnivorous as i. edacious:voracious and devouring*‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

what is love to you? is it about doing the little things? or is it simply about one thing few know little of – showing up.   ‘close but no cigar' you did everythingbut love me.*‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

i call these my ‘throwaway pieces' or my ‘fillers.' snippets of something that come to mind while i'm in-between poems or actually in the middle of writing one. when that happens, i'll stop the poem on a dime, quickly jot down the words i see in my head, then resume. i've shared a lot of them & don't give them a second thought. to be honest, sometimes i don't think they're very good. but they come from somewhere so there must be meaning. what do you think? what stops you on a dime? do you have ‘throwaways' in life or is everything measured just so?  ‘karma' i do not want to see you undressed; i want to see you undone.*‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto 

‘what buries' (from dead bird)  keep bones in palmsanything other you are a liarsilence is violence toodirt for the flowershelter for its seed aren't we all in lovewith someone elsefaked until time comes due and what flees from breastwe cannot cagedespite the sorrowand all the aching what buries does not keep dirtwhat buries does not keep dirt. *‘DEAD BIRD' ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘set me straight' my urging maddeneda long master steepedbitter death thirstunder diseased and heedless skiesso very strange the senses,and her placed finger upon lips—“everything perishes,” she roilsher brightness a ruby gone undiscoveredwho could question or spinfrom her gravity;perhaps her pale handswill harness something otherthan a passing one day.i waitshivering under the singular crookedness of her baptizing. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘thumbs' your lips inclined for summeri filled your lacking chest with unpublished form and desireas a great artist wouldbut so much more confessional and like idle draperies,you hung autumn conversationsbefore nights grew long, or familiar or hastened, and dark, without evidence of the complete picturei believed you would be. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

go to the local bar. not a party bar. a dim gritty local bar. sit. order a drink. settle yourself in. listen closely. feel the energy. read the faces. allow the stories into your pores… ‘r.i.p. social media' funeral serviceswill be held todayfor all the martyrsthat write of theirinconsequential woeswhile down atthe local bartears fill the beersof the woebegoneand forgotten.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

when love was actually at the bar… ‘romance is dead' they hold hands on their wayout of the bar. stares, the stareseyes boring into their backs.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

old poem here, but i still remember this moment, still remember the tullamore dews being passed over my notebook and thinking to myself ‘i hope no one spills their shots.' of course, i was the one to spill his shot on my notebook then furiously dabbed at the puddle atop the page. this poem serves as a lesson that sometimes the ‘you' i write about is actually self-reflective. ‘it never dries' i can write over stains of tullamore dew in my notebookbut i cannot writeover fuck-ups you've committedacross my life. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘she's here' simplicitywhat passion should bethe great white canvas brushedno explanationa gaze that shines in the vacuum. illusion stitched behind the lids,i have longed to perceive,to know tactile existence,conditioned for a height i'll fall living; and then she slipped like christmas into my mouth,a gift,and left my tongue of cloves, and the tearing sound of sightbeautiful and awful at once; and the knowing,the sweet simplicity of my knowing.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘writer's block of lovers' desperate to expresshow much he misses herhis pen loses all penchantfor words.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘long night' i don't want to go home. a hangover and hell awaits.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘hypocrisy' the hypocrisy you unfurllike a banner from your tongue a bold statement to the world: your windows are free of streaks; your roomsan absolute mess. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘how do they stay together' he talksshe listens and listensand listens listens.*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘four guys in the corner of the bar' a motley crewtheir voices rang uneducated, inebriatedbarely tolerated;their spouses relieved they weren't at home. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘quiescent' a draw between lips, a capture within lungs. i fear this air may be no good for me. it tastes of what you took and what i gave and already repeats. there's a stirring come november, a chromatic death dust around my tongue and i can count all our late-night conversations spiraling slowly, slowly in the wind. why are you not here to pull snug against my neck? there's a bite to the sky nastier than the instance you snapped i don't love you the same way anymore so now near feral things i curl my fingers into palms. around town the ghosts are packed in safekeeping till another season and yet i'm kept in the open like the lazy neighbor who never takes a holiday down. i'm worn from wearing masks and lighting lights so hollow hope won't seem so dim. leaves twist around my feet like the dry tornado rips my throat. it's best i go back in, take off my coat and drink to the arms outside my window that once bore living things.  quiescent: being at rest; quiet*‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘blame the signal not the service' "there's a disconnect,"she says. he scrolls their long trail of messages and finding no apparent betrayals realizes he has simply beenunplugged. *‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON! *#barflypoet#josephapinto© Joseph A. Pinto*Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted.The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars.*'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon.*www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘avoid'   i'm doing everything i can to avoid you which is hard because the distance between us is so great anyway.    * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘her abstract is fucked up'   upon the wall her latest creation twisted abstract; wire for bone—   window shades where eyes flutter   hole in sheetrock for the jagged heart.   * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘conversation has lost us'   we must be disillusioned staring out into the great void thinking we can traverse oceans in paper boats.   the messages we carry to ferry us one coast to the next will only dissolve upon contact with water bleed one letter into next.  * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘hide behind the words'   on and on she declares her strength to the world every syllable shining while the conviction behind it remains shaken. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘denial'   he never had a drinking problem until he met her.   then the acceleration of heartbeat paired with the numbing slowdown of brainwaves became essential to his being.  * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘cell phone'   i'm not ignoring you, she said as her thumbs danced   eyes lied. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘inquiry versus demand'    she asks a question (just speaking her mind) a snarl from her throat— isn't that the prevailing problem a matter of two realities   inquiry versus demand oh we are so far off so far and away from each other that conversation no longer exists between lines and all must be deciphered from tomes that no longer hold meaning or respect for history. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘late night'   mascara rimming your eyes  keeps the pools from spilling  while you sell sex freely from your lips;   crimson explosion— you're slaying them in droves.  * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘i've got nothing'   your words are heartfelt   delivered to a heart worn. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘i will prove you otherwise'   i've lost my muse   i've lost my swagger   but i've never lost that motherfucking chip on my shoulder. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘innocence suffers'   he's out in this world gaps within the dna birthed by snakeskin intentions   child will never know child will never understand —   the devil lives in twisted words heavy hearts and unholy unisons.   * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘birds and bees' one day when you are older i will tell you all about that thing called love and how it was a lie. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘leave me be'  there is nothing worse than writing bullshit beside someone who wants to talk it. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘brush strokes'   you're such a fake  painting the perfect picture for others  you're an abstract portrait at home. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

‘anakin'   train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. still i clench her tight within my palms. shimmer of stars lighting the cluster of my nerves and she shines straight through. tell me, how can i release her, how in this universe can i ever move on? black hole within a turning heart, she pulls me deep. deeper. every ounce of strength lightyears from anything i gave before yet our promise once lambent now alabaster. expect me to step into light when all i've wanted fractures? bring the other half to my whole only to cleave her free?   i hate you.   i hate you.   i hate you!    anakin   prophesied to be the chosen one who would bring balance to the force; his fear of loss proved to be his downfall. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto

what do we hear from the desperate person? are the words taken from context, or only that which we choose to hear or think we know…?   ‘empathy'   before you get angry please understand i couldn't hold out anymore. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘what we love will kill us' (from ‘dead bird')    i have trouble sitting inside myself.   you think i am quiet gazing out the window but i am pacing the perch.   i know the blue sky will eat me whole.   i just wonder  will it will break my neck first. * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘neglecting the pet: an overview'  (from 'dead bird')    you swing my door open i won't come out extend a hand i won't budge you'll feed me now to starve me later you'll free me now to put me back away you think it's okay you think i think i should feel blessed and you deflect my depression oh you've open walls (at best) swing my door open i won't come out extend a hand i won't budge feed me now starve me later free me now put me back away you think it's okay you think i think i should feel blessed and you deflect my depression it's all the best, this air oh isn't it air you need? * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘peering through'  (from dead bird)   no childhood to fall back on small wonder i fear cliffs sterilized by the book i made myself fertile across a page; am i beautiful   a bruise is a knuckle unaware of the patient hand so truth slurs sometimes through lips stained red and the bars of this cage allow more room than they should   silence is like darkness unwanted, but coming.  * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘accepting the silence' (from 'dead bird')   once the blood stains the hands is there coming back or do we start over accepting the silence perhaps interment is a matter of layers a depth of infliction meant to condition the mind of the true horrors that await there is no use brandishing palms not when the stigma already infects self left to rot inside out spat and consumed again mother mary enjoys best dishes cold bones to pick last don't worry dear i strain vocal cords now so you won't hear me scream later.  * ‘DEAD BIRD' NOW ON SALE AT AMAZON!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'dead bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘first taste of fall'   one more thing strapped to my back i have loosened searching for pockets to shift its weight i never learn all that's been collected is just one more thing someone forgets so why can't i drop it i deserve to be weightless hollow boned, less structure, more space what's it like to wake careless, what's it like to wake knowing, another seed i thought flower turned to vine a voiceless thought friend becomes stranger lover's dedication two-times it's just one more thing until you break i just can't let it go i deserve to be without a heart absent mouthed, less fractured, more whole what's it like to sleep stressless, what's it like to sleep downwind,           of everything that's put down           give, to give in           i can't ever be collected           i can't gather you again a house with a roof is a home is a lie; my shed skin its own ecology my knots they mar this floor           and language in backward draft           escapes beneath the doors. * ‘DEAD BIRD' RELEASES OCTOBER 15!  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘bar: 5:02 pm sunday'   maybe i won't find healing here but i sure as hell won't  suffer anymore.    * ‘DEAD BIRD' RELEASES OCTOBER 15!  TUNE IN FOR MORE DETAILS! * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘harbinger'   i told her i'd check in for a weekend and if no reply she'd know where to collect me.  * MY NEW POETRY COLLECTION RELEASES OCTOBER 15!  DETAILS TO COME! * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘you're hurting me'   sky falls a slap to the head the sea notwithstanding still, a ringing in my ear and you, with your fondness for forests, leave me as still and cruelly as silent.   my stupid facial expression from its pocket and read like an inscription duplicity has again set its teeth onto me.   while you, indifferent, unspeaking and unsharing, slowly become what he became to you;   an instrument, no longer the heart. * MY NEW POETRY COLLECTION RELEASES OCTOBER 15!  DETAILS TO COME! * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘it's midafternoon and i'll be drinking all night'   sit, rediscover faith; false prophets will eventually drain your pocket in time.   your maker won't be found in gospel rather the sting at the back of your throat.  * MY NEW POETRY COLLECTION RELEASES OCTOBER 15!  DETAILS TO COME! * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘fodder'   what attracted you to my writing in the first place? did you say to yourself here is a man unabashedly sharing his pains and losses and inner most thoughts sans the veil of anonymity in such a refreshingly raw and vulnerable way that eventually i'll reduce him to a depth lower than he's ever wanted to know? * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘the logic of drinking bourbon alone'   an untimely breakup is like a death really,   your lover in the here no longer in the now. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

there are no leads   a crime scene now he thumbs through his phone searching for clues a motive behind the tragic death of a starstruck boy and his once in a lifetime love.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘learning to show you my bruises too'   sometimes it's just one thing that sends the insecure boy scrambling for hidden meaning, for deeper meaning, so scared you'll say it's time for you to go home.    sometimes the man smiles while the boy stands in tears.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘take what you are wherever you are'   in my house and i feel unsettled. out of my house and i feel unsettled. within myself and i am grounded. * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support

‘mine'   she collects hearts  wherever she goes yet dropped the biggest she'll find.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * Poetry served raw and unedited from the moment crafted. The large majority of my poetry handcrafted from inside bars. * 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * www.etsy.com/shop/JosephPinto --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/joseph-pinto3/support