‘helicopter’ i must have lift. i must have a force moving me upward. but i’ve lacked it all, and all my life, the reminder of it a steady beat within my chest. whoomp whoomp whoomp whoomp i imagine a parade, a marching band, endless columns of feet with gum-stained soles and taut lips that …
you knew shit until me so accustomed you were to the frill, the grandeur so accustomed to sparkle the hollow repetition of delicacies; you never saw me coming; you never knew i existed at all; truths long denied now stain you; gentle love atop your bed traded for a hard fuck against the …
murderers i drank scotch i drank scotch drank another scotch and took a piss and noticed the snot on the walls a graveyard of snot dead by smearing and dead by premature picking hanging a sacred place above the urinal. i scrubbed my hands did not touch the bar but threw down …
spinnin’ the greatest hits from the barflypoet yesterday and today! #tbt hero just because you’re no hero of the day. you don’t own a cape. you run into empty buildings only to save dreams once they’ve perished. it’s so much easier to collect the cash and adulation from those more …
‘strip’ let the impressions ringing your neck serve as a reminder i own you you are mine to take to ravish; i will strip your mind of pretense quicker than your clothes. #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. …poetry handcrafted from the inside of bars; no poem …
‘facebook junkie’ please, please suffer through like the rest; do not publicize your every ailment seeking to pluck the violin strings. your song is grating no grander than anything or anyone else. #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. …poetry handcrafted from the inside of bars; no …
I can’t believe that my daughter is nearly a month into first grade. It seems like only yesterday that together we took a walk to her future elementary school. She was only three years old then. She sported a Tinker Bell hat atop her head and wore a Cookie Monster backpack – practice for ‘when …
I’ve been asked by many people to separate the fact from fiction in my novella Dusk and Summer. While I cannot reveal all my tricks to its telling, I will say that, as a tribute to my father, I took many elements of his life and seamlessly incorporated them into the story. I will offer …
Pack you bags, we’re going to Canada! What am I talking aboot? I’ll tell you what I’m talking aboot – for the ninth stop of my Dusk and Summer blog tour, we’re in beautiful Canada, home of Julianne Snow, host of ‘The Flipside with Julianne‘ blog, sinister plotter of the webseries ‘Days with the Undead’, …
With Scotland in our rearview, we now head back to the States; namely the headquarters of Sirens Call Publications. The amazing gals at Sirens Call Publications – Nina, Julie and Gloria – turned Dusk and Summer into a reality for me. They immediately recognized that Dusk and Summer was born of love, written with love …
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