Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’  and ‘ from my front steps .’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘ dead bird .’   it isn’t freedom when someone else holds the key…   ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’ and ‘ from my front steps .’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘ dead bird .’   what will your death feel like? will it be full and fruitful? or just another void?   ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’ and ‘ from my front steps .’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘ dead bird .’   it’s all encompassing, my silence. drawn over me like a quilt.    ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a revi...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’ and ‘ from my front steps .’ now it’s more from my 2024 collection ‘ dead bird .’   there are holes in my yard. home for all that has died. but nothing truly rests…    ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me t...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’ and ‘ from my front steps .’ we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘ dead bird .’   tighten the belt. it’s a cruel cycle, this life…   ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   t...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’ and ‘ from my front steps .’ now we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘ dead bird .’   my bird would never stop screeching for me. god, those screeches…only all for me…   ‘dead bird’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit, ’  ‘ scotch & scars ,’  and ‘ from my front steps .’ now we move along to my 4th collection from 2024, ‘ dead bird .’   i hit my ‘groove’ during the writing of ‘ dead bird. ’ i believe writers should follow an evolutionary timeline of growth and introspect. sometimes that road is paved by t...

and now the conclusion of my shameless book promotion time for my 2021 collection  ‘from my front steps.’   how far does the string stretch..?   ‘from my front steps’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘when will we be us’   you can’t share my drink but we can share the sky do you gaze as i do alon...

on we go with my shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2021 collection  ‘from my front steps.’   can you ever have what you truly want? i lose my appetite thinking about it…   ‘from my front steps’   is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘not hungry anymore’   seems as though everyone’s insi...

more of my shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2021 collection  ‘from my front steps.’   at the time of its writing, i was struggling with the effects of spinal stenosis, masking the pain with copious amounts of booze and unwilling to lean into self-healing even while i still readily helped others. i had to learn that healers have their own process, and timeline, before accepting and...

more of my shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2021 collection  ‘from my front steps.’   covid-19 was a helluva time, wasn’t it? it began to expose the ugly divide in our country. the selfishness. it only made you wonder if reality was truly a fabrication, & how dependent we are on crutches to see ourselves through…   ‘from my front steps’   is available on amazon. if you enjoy i...

moving along on my shameless book promotion time, another excerpt from my 2021 collection  ‘from my front steps.’   my daughter is on the spectrum & it’s been a tough journey for all involved. everything is a challenge, right down to making friends. it’s broken my heart, even while her own knows no bounds.    ‘from my front steps’   is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me th...

it’s shameless book promotion time! i’ve already shared poetry from my collections ‘ a distilled spirit ’ and ‘ scotch & scars .’ now we move along to my 3rd collection from 2021, ‘ from my front steps .’   unlike the books preceding it, where my poetry was selected to  make  a collection, this was my first attempt at actually writing  for  a collection. it became a breakthrough of sorts for m...

i am nothing but misplaced hope.   ‘where gone summer’   firecracker mouth thinks it’s july the heat, one syllabic melt and the bleat, bang bang   misplaced hope in a waffle cone crumbled into a tree that died rolled a joint i can’t smoke fell out the window on east 54th   now like a litterbug dropping christmas lights joy comes tangled and unplugged but sants loves me more than jesus one delivers...

a winning hand.   ‘casino 1:46 am’   i’ve drunk myself into an oblivion the kind of which that spins the world while you stumble standing still.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto *...

after awhile you don’t feel the blows…   ‘when i get home’   dreaming of uttered exclamations joyful breaths across my neck  instead i hear your baptized insistence volley from an old war  echoing across the knoll. the chest no longer blooms though alive with booted movement solemn unacceptabilities marching  in a cadence led straight to slaughter; and in another breath like a lifetime i find bene...

in need of an anchor, i found what sunk me…   ‘the dubious monster’   a few points raised by the unhappy mistress as her blue eyes shone so cerebral in their collapse: it’s a shameful ruin, the dubious monster, whose death escapes  within its very arms.   gently i reached into my pocket and between silence and dream chose a purpled palm of light.   so i see. returning the same as you gave. a vast...

go ahead. underestimate the quiet ones.   ‘back off’   got a scotch in one hand.   a bad attitude in the other.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit' poetry collections available in paperback and ebook on Amazon. * instagram at joseph_a_pinto * https://www.etsy.com/shop/Joseph...

all of me, nothing but shadow…   ‘worthy’   my expression, nothing that is worthy of a beautiful breath; these days displeasure crosses me as most women i have loved, locked under the  furrow of my brow eyes each a shuttered house   i live as a candle blown out— a statement to which no response will ever materialize, unfazed even by the splintered cork spoiling bottle, penciled figure awaiting col...

you claim it’s communication. i beg to differ.   ‘unconditional coldness’    objections like leaves fall from mouths unconscious droughts pestilent assemblages of air, swirling intention prohibited    our feet gifting unconditional coldness.  * #barflypoet #josephapinto © Joseph A. Pinto * 'Dead Bird,' 'From My Front Steps,' 'Scotch and Scars' and 'A Distilled Spirit&#3...

i can’t take it anymore.   ‘taking’   the drive is mundane the scenery is mundane—   he takes the trash pail from the driveway she takes mail from the box the dog takes a shit on the grass the family takes the walk  and takes the shit from the lawn he takes time from the neighbor she takes heavy bags to the door everyone is taking something from everyone somewhere.   you take it all in.  * #barfly...

smooth. she’s so smooth…   ‘she walks’   she walks with summer's  swoon, breeze at her back regal considerations always on her tongue and  you would certainly fall in  line behind her, mesmerized by the cadence of her stilettos alone; alone, she thinks. she rips the  cigarette from her mouth and  crushes it  against the sidewalk,  stained red from an unloved mouth.    * #barflypoet #josephapin...

concluding shameless book promotion time from my 2020 collection ‘ scotch & scars !’   what is said when nothing is said at all? how could a vacant look carry so much weight..?   ‘scotch & scars’  is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:    ‘scotch and scars’   in the lonely you’ll find me shuffling...

shameless book promotion time! continuing with my 2nd poetry collection ‘ scotch & scars ’  from 2020.   anatomy lesson: the bones hold you up but certainly don’t keep you together…    ‘scotch & scars’  is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:    ‘bone and matter’   you’re completely ignorant to the...

shameless book promotion time! sipping again from my 2nd poetry collection ‘ scotch & scars ’  from 2020.   it hits you sometimes…most times…a truth that in your sober you deny. but not anymore…   ‘scotch & scars’  is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘one more’   the perception is  you drink t...