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the last of my 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 the final pick from my 2024 collection ‘dead bird.’   within me always, a storm…   ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘what we love will kill us’   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? * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 selection is:   ‘neglecting the pet: an overview’    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? * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘pay your respects’   i’m going to die.   i went after it all but never got it.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 review.   today’s selection is:   ‘accepting the silence’   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.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘what buries’   keeping bones in palms anything other you are a liar silence is violence too dirt for the flower shelter for its seed   aren’t we all in love with someone else faked until time comes due   and what flees from breast we cannot cage despite the sorrow and all the aching   what buries does not keep dirt what buries does not keep dirt. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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.   today’s selection is:   ‘ouroboros’   we are born to be someone’s sacrifice fodder for the karmic machine fattened only to serve as bones’ stripped fat what to make of life once we are crushed do we bleat before death or find strength to go on hollow inside skin; cycled only to learn the test becomes the cycle  there’s no retiring this road before the slaughterhouse calls; there the leanest ones are recognized to have lived their fullest. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘the last’    rome burns while you knot laces lips taut as those laces feathers spiraling like cinder singed while the burn down goes so slowly, we’ve time to run out soul flight, we’re held up i fear this is the first of fires tonight. fragile things go in smoke soot covered scars the bird she screeches to save us or herself who knows and the last light like truth on the pew there to damage. across your eyes an orange glow ghost town population of loss the last to blaze a cage songless and white like skeletal ribs.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 the natural process of life. sometimes, it’s triggered more forcibly.    the sudden passing of my pet bird sparked the emotional trigger for my collection. but if you think ‘dead bird’ is anything about a bird at all, well, i guess you haven’t been following me very long.    ‘dead bird’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘peering through’    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.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 alone atop front steps filling spaces with question marks while the breeze exclaims touch atop skin and i am dumbstruck   and i am in awe   the further you draw  the closer you come in you had me the moment god made this world spin; indoor living stifles the senses but outdoors universe reminds: we are tethered.   still hopeful the string shortens lengthening our mythos. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 inside chilling skin and protecting themselves barriers come in cloth now as if words did not infect enough i sunburn my eyes so i can’t see what i’m thinking  my verse fuels visions and  in this heat paragraphs and booze do not dispel reality so easily dinner seems a welcome thought to fill me so too, once, the thought of you and i you made it clear you couldn’t stomach that and force-fed i had no choice but digest. these days i am hardened but liquid spilling quietly from the seams and i can’t smell what the neighbors are cooking or tell you you’ve ripped out my guts when i was quite content with the way you stole my heart. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 stepping into what they already own.   ‘from my front steps’ is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘chronic pain’   it’s borrowed time sitting atop my front steps no longer can my spine withstand the compression i grit teeth and knock the amber down my throat disconnecting anguish from reality month by month bowing just a bit more in my head i am still who i can no longer be come stare into my eyes before they dull over there before you the illusion i’ve married— i am whole; i am whole— but i am nothing. and i am tired. and i am worn; the humidity rolling down my ribs a reprieve to the fire rolling thru my core. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘the forgotten phase’   the country closed tight though like an old whore some parts insist on parting open accepting the dime but not the dollar common sense priceless and drying in jars moonshine gone the way of lemonade and the sober guzzle it while the drunks measure the fingers clinging inside the glass laughing cause they get it— the hard stuff lends the buzz but reality is what’ll get ya— with swimming heads they toast the drowning knowing thru abandoned hearts they trained for the marathon not the race.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘if i’m okay’ she’s having her first sleepover  i can feel her glow from down the block she’s found a friend who accepts her as she is it’s all i could ever ask for a lesson i pray she learns without my constant reminding it’s hard being a father trading football jersey for dolls a stern tongue for princess voices and i’d be a liar if i said i wasn’t a bit sad and i’d be a liar if i said i won’t consult  the stuffed animals lining her bed tonight hoping they’ll ask in inflections i impersonate if i’m okay.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 me.   while covid-19 shut life down during the summer of 2020, i decided on a challenge: in only a few days and while sitting atop my front steps, i would write a small collection to whatever i was witnessing or feeling. what came through were the first tellings of my newfound spirituality, my trademark ruminations and a tale of unrequited love.   ‘from my front steps’ is available on amazon. if you enjoy it, please indulge me the favor of a review.   today’s selection is:   ‘prophecies and promises’   my tarot spoke of a storm coming but the weatherman didn’t warn me so i poured a bourbon and a beer and took to my front steps hoping to divine what the fine lines of  my uni-ball pen conjured within a one subject notebook lacking the muscle to support the entirety of my complexity  something i have endured thru this the celtic cross spread of my life while atop the horizon goliaths gathered churning in tease of prophecies and promises i have waited for in unwavering faith tortured by sutured lips of spirit whose grand notebook far dwarfs my own. * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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 one don’t   snowman inflatables depreciate under eyes if mistletoe hung kiss me there i’m told i taste of sulfur and silence confession my feet never soaked summer’s salt holidays roll faster year by year no f***s given wrapped ribbonly   should i hear before the sleigh my roof’s collapsing under weight adults say is imaginary.  * #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/JosephPinto  * subscribe to the ‘Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet’ YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/y2stm5ms⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠