you get what you pay for

 

It’s time for the ‘What Pains You Project.’ I listen privately to your pain and write an anonymous poem dedicated to you…

 

‘you get what you pay for’

 

piece by piece

he deconstructed himself

starting with the roof

the timber, the floor

until he chiseled away

at the very foundation

that kept him rooted

to the ground.

reflecting back she realizes

he would have failed

whether steel beamed or

brick mortared;

a shack never meant

for the storms.

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open road

‘open road’

 

you’re just one big open road

yet your face reads dead-end.

no amount of detouring

will ever bring you

back to the start.

#barflypoet

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bitter

 

‘bitter’

 

i despise you

for all the things

you never did with me.

 

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the seat beside me

 

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‘the seat beside me’

 

sporting a black eye,

he tells me:

women are like booze

but you can’t get punched in the face

for sucking on the neck of a bourbon;

his voice slurs with decades of bad decisions;

his eyes swim like

confused fish in a dirty bowl.

i watch him drink

until those fish go belly-up

then order myself another scotch.

#barflypoet

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infidelities

 

‘infidelities’

 

my gut is stuffed with infidelities.

i’ve never been faithful to myself

only the notion of rejecting my own lies.

 

#barflypoet

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part of her wishes

It’s time for the ‘What Pains You Project.’ I listen privately to your pain and write an anonymous poem dedicated to you…

 

‘part of her wishes’

 

a handful of caterpillars

snug in the palm

she doesn’t clench her fist

until deep in the night

she’s alone.

 

alone—wishing she was

with him

on a day they could call

their own.

 

she has nothing.

no days. no cloudless skies.

 

she holds open her palm

wishing moon for sun

wishing he for him

 

closing her eyes she exhales

lost in metamorphosis.

 

#barflypoet

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never was she appreciated

It’s time for the ‘What Pains You Project.’ I listen privately to your pain and write an anonymous poem dedicated to you…

 

‘never was she appreciated’

 

‘cross her pallor

she lets drop the veil

concealing the immolation

and epitaphs her lungs

have coughed up.

she loves flowers

not bouquets

she loves dying

not artificial inhalations

of survival.

she loves the raven’s caw

atop her tombstone today

not her widow’s song

for tomorrow.

#barflypoet

#josephapinto

 

#whatpainsyouproject –

a poem for an anonymous reader and their pain…

© Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved.

 

Pour yourself my poetry collection ‘A Distilled Spirit: pained prose from a bar,’ ready for consumption at:

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