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Joseph Pinto, the barfly poet
@barflypoet.bsky.social
drinkin' proofs & writin' truths in NJ.

writer of dark fiction.

reiki master teacher, tarot reader & intuitive empath.

i’ve got more layers than an onion 🙄

find my books on Amazon!

www.barflypoet.com
shameless book promotion time!

one last share from my 2018 collection ‘a distilled spirit.’

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if enjoyed, please indulge me the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

‘mercy killing’

#poetry #poem
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
shameless book promotion time! more from my 2018 collection ‘a distilled spirit.’

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon for your reading pleasure. if enjoyed, please indulge me the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

‘empty, still you try’

#poetry #poem
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
it’s #throwbackthursday time! this one is from april of 2018.

i love that feeling of sauntering up to a bar and knocking one back before they ever knew what hit ‘em.

short. hard. and sweet.

‘wraith’

#poetry #poem
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Don’t get excited. You’re only going to know what they want you to know.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
shameless book promotion time! continuing with ‘a distilled spirit’ from 2018.

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon. if enjoyed, please indulge the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

'the tree'

#poetry #poem
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
shameless book promotion time! continuing with ‘a distilled spirit’ from 2018.

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon. if enjoyed, please indulge the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

'dulled'

#poetry #poem
November 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
shameless book promotion time! continuing with ‘a distilled spirit’ from 2018.

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon. if enjoyed, please indulge the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

‘you’

#poetry #poem
November 15, 2025 at 4:24 PM
it’s #throwbackthursday time!

this one is from may of 2018.
ever have a drink and just keep staring into the glass…?

‘an ipa at 9%’
#poetry #poem
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
hello! time for some book promotions!

starting with ‘a distilled spirit,’ my first poetry collection published back in 2018.

‘a distilled spirit’ is available on amazon. if enjoyed, please indulge the favor of a review.

peace!

today’s selection is:

‘perils of greasy calamari’

#poetry #poems
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
throwin’ it back back back today! it’s my #throwbackthursday

previously shared, this one is from june of 2018.
bar observation. the things you learn sitting next to someone…

‘brutal’
#poetry #poem
November 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
to only hold what once we held…

‘in silence’

#poetry #poem
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
challenge accepted.

‘i can do this’

#poetry #poem
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
bar observation again.

let me be clear about something:
i fully support the LGBTQ community! nothing but love here!

‘i love lesbians at the bar’
#poetry #poem
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
yet time and time again i stalk this graveyard of the mind.
mourning…

‘buried’

#poetry #poem
October 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
hold me.

‘i’m suffering’
#poetry #poem
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i’ll show you where the real fires are…

‘bad mistake’

#poetry #poem
October 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
this job will kill you…

‘i drank till 2am’

#poetry #poem
October 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
when bar writing i often write in ‘machine-gun fire,’ snippets of thoughts one after the other without pause. the irony is even though they’re thoughts they really aren’t in that i never really gave them thought in the first sense. i know, i know, i’m a complicated man…

‘puppy dog’

#poetry #poem
October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
i know what mine is.
do you know yours?

‘my cost’
#poetry #poem
October 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
the struggle is real…

‘dependency’
#poetry #poem
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
from 2017:

‘little girl on the beach’

#poetry #poem
October 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
ouija not necessary…

‘i see them’

#poetry #poem
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
'he told good stories so i bought a round'

#poetry #poem
September 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
don’t singe your fingertips.

‘choose your purpose’

#poetry #poem
September 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
September 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM