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'banalities'

repelled our lips turn unfamiliar 

a thousand contradictions despite the smiles 

an axiom birthed

reconstructed and blue;

warned we were of this indefinable

sense of decomposition 

now here we are reduced to

simplified semblances of self.

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© Copyright Joseph A. Pinto. All Rights Reserved.

…poetry handcrafted from the inside of bars …

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My newest poetry collection ‘Scotch and Scars’ is now available in paperback and Kindle ebook at Amazon.

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‘A Distilled Spirit’ also available in paperback and ebook at Amazon.