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    A Distilled Spirit: Pained Prose from a Bar
    A Distilled Spirit: Pained Prose from a Bar
    A Distilled Spirit: Pained Prose from a Bar
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    A Distilled Spirit: Pained Prose from a Bar

    By Joseph Pinto

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    a distilled spirit.

    pained prose from a bar...

    these are conversations heard both outside and inside my head,
    interludes drawn from sights seen in front of and behind my eyes;
    an encapsulation of regret and regression, death and demise.
    they are the interpretation of lives unraveling before me.

    become my companion interloper as you sip from this collection,
    or slam it back in a gulp.

    pain is beautiful. pull up a chair.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph Pinto
    Release dateFeb 9, 2018
    ISBN9780999112717
    A Distilled Spirit: Pained Prose from a Bar
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    Joseph Pinto

    Joseph Pinto is the author of the poetry collections From My Front Steps (2021), Scotch and Scars (2020) and A Distilled Spirit (2018), the poignant novella Dusk and Summer (2008) and the horror novel Flowers for Evelene (2005) - as well numerous dark fiction tales; his unique voice has been showcased in a multitude of anthologies and magazines as well as individually published short stories.He is known as the barflypoet – and yes, he really writes poetry from inside bars.Indulge in Joseph’s work at www.josephpinto.comFollow him on:- Instagram: @joseph_a_pinto- Twitter: @JosephAPinto- Facebook: Joseph A. Pinto, barflypoet & author of dark fiction- YouTube (spoken word poetry): Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

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      A Distilled Spirit - Joseph Pinto

      a distilled spirit

      pained prose from a bar

      joseph pinto

      a distilled spirit

      Copyright ©2018, 2020 Joseph Pinto

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except where noted in the text and in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles, reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, email the author: authorjosephpinto@gmail.com with the body: Attention: Permissions Coordinator

      Published by Distilled Press

      Printed in the United States of America

      Edited by Lisa Bachhuber

      Cover Design by Debbie Boettcher

      www.josephpinto.com

      First Edition

      ISBN: 978-0-9991127-0-0 Print

      All characters and events appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      for you.

      the wayward

      the broken

      the pained

      the lost

      the grieving

      the unloved

      the lonely

      the blackened

      the muted

      the different

      the observant;

      the rare.

      seven pm

      3. believe what you hear

      4. power lunch

      5. highways

      6. nothing

      7. the tree

      8. change of seasons

      9. creed

      10. it’s my thing, not yours

      11. keyboard blues

      12. the lost art of conversation

      13. he’s got the moves

      14. empty, still you try

      15. mouth

      16. spectre

      17. on foggy streets

      18. bullshit

      19. mindless

      20. you

      21. those eyes

      22. as usual

      23. mercy killing

      24. hollow eyes

      25. birth

      26. let it out

      27. dulled

      28. floor mirror

      29. the sweater

      30. delivery

      31. stripping down

      32. un

      33. jumper

      34. a spider matters

      35. ode

      36. under the gun

      37. deep thaw

      38. ashes

      39. the master craftsman

      40. perils of greasy calamari

      nine pm

      43. gentleman johnnie

      45. spoiled

      46. just not here

      47. fog

      48. hand poised on knob

      49. spawn

      50. pseudo cerulean queen

      51. desecrate

      52. gallon of milk

      54. the unseeable

      55. unrisen

      56. your debt

      57. complete

      58. an american barbecue

      59. heard

      60. resolutions

      61. the room you live in

      62. high time

      63. boarding pass

      64. fruitless driving

      65. nothing

      66. somber reminders

      67. parapraxis

      68. radio

      69. down the drain

      70. simple shift

      71. no revision

      72. going nowhere

      73. threads

      74. above

      75. time worn

      76. funny what you believe

      77. loose words

      78. no help

      79. winter’s sunset

      80. native son

      81. she walks

      82. wick

      83. redundancy

      84. tuesday night at the pub

      eleven pm

      87. not defined by your threads

      88. thanks for nothing

      89. your uncanny way of knowing

      90. breath

      91. skin and bones

      92. what i learned

      94. dignity

      95. to carve, to own

      96. it’s all the same

      97. crooked view

      98. in this, like all else

      99. and tonight you cling

      100. ways of sorrow

      101. keep to yourself

      102. of a new age

      103. childproof

      104. of this i do not care

      105. black

      106. to take what you do not want to own

      107. refill

      108. a place to hang my coat

      109. old fashioned love

      110. attainable aspirations

      111.

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