Joseph A. Pinto

barflypoet & author of dark fiction

  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 …

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  did you get your copy of FROM MY FRONT STEPS yet?   it’s a poetry collection, of course, but also a story within a story within a story, and no one really knows how it will end…   here’s the introductory page to FROM MY FRONT STEPS   summer 2020:   over the course …

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  a different route   i really should be sitting atop the cool dew mat of your grave but i’ve chosen a different route today— uncomfortable stool beneath me a jagged tear on the one beside sipping on a scotch watching as what remains of this afternoon bleeds away.   listen to this poem   …

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  i haven’t thrown it back in awhile, so no better time than now! spinnin’ the greatest hits from the barflypoet yesterday and today! #tbt   monstrosities   come don your spider silk trousseau, indulge me a jig— funeral hymn and devil’s perfume— blackened, our matrimony miasma, our vows ever faithful i’ll be to rust-mouthed …

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  no bones about it   you make me realize just how insignificant i truly am.   listen to this poem   ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS‘ now available on Amazon   #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted.   ‘Scotch …

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  no matter the label   scotch goes down smoother the more pain you’re in.   listen to this poem   ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS‘ now available on Amazon   #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted.   ‘Scotch and …

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  slice   we all need to bleed out our own way.   listen to this poem   ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS‘ now available on Amazon   #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. all poetry is older work and chosen at random unless otherwise noted.   ‘Scotch and Scars’ and ‘A …

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  yeah, it’s fucked up   things were much simpler when i harvested hate and not this hateful thing called love.   listen to this poem   ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS‘ now available on Amazon   #barflypoet #josephapinto © Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved. all poetry is older work and chosen at random …

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  ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS: ruminations, observations and longing in a pandemic’ is finally on sale!   I’m excited for you to have the opportunity to read ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS.’ It’s a short collection, but I think you’ll agree it packs a punch. I’m proud of this subtle shift in direction of all my …

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  to commemorate the release of my collection ‘FROM MY FRONT STEPS’ on June 5, here’s an except from my second collection ‘SCOTCH AND SCARS’   ghost whisperer   the dead are all around us.   look at the shattered faces haunting their glasses at the bar.   listen to this poem   ‘FROM MY FRONT …

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