extra

Joseph Pinto, the barflypoet

‘extra’

tonight indignation listens to me solely

but only when billy bush

is not speaking.

sometimes i worry

my mind will explode in a spray

of deep verses but the television

can always be counted upon

to pull me from the precipice.

it has not turned 8pm yet and

already i am bound for bed, alone,

and like the lampshade,

holding back my light.

my truest time comes

when i close my eyes.

billy? i lost any hope of stardom

a long time ago.

#barflypoet

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© Joseph A. Pinto

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