The Bastard of Long

By Samantha Friello

After a long hiatus, Poet Samantha Friello is back with her most moving and influential book to date!

In her sixth anthology of poetry, “The Bastard Of Long”, Poet Samantha Friello utilizes her remarkable talent for storytelling along with her raw, yet eloquent and lyrical verse to captivate, tease, and tantalize the reader with poems which cover all aspects of life - making it, “The potpourri of human experience!”

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532084980

Samantha Friello

Samantha Friello received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Media and Communications from the State University of New York at Old Westbury. She has previously published six anthologies of narrative-prose poetry. She currently resides in the Southeastern U.S. with her family and beloved animals.

Book preview

Now Made Obvious

a quintessential, gold digger you

would never have thought him to be

for he has carefully scrutinized all

of his options before concluding

that you would be the perfect target

to fulfill his high-class, monetary needs

sweeping you off your feet with his

larger-than-life persona while placating

you with dime store flowers doomed to

thankfully wither, wilt, and then die

for this façade of a relationship

will never gain momentum after glimpsing

his self-satisfied smirk matching the sinister

look now made obvious within the deep, dark

depths of his penetrating, sociopathic eyes

Everything and All

taking life’s excruciating

circumstances into your own hands

for you will undoubtedly try to

sever existing ties connecting

you to the earth’s humid and rainy

weather constructing mud out of sand

yearning to recapture the brilliant

sunrise’s invigorating beauty along

with its miraculous ability to be

resurrected, revived, and reborn

for you would give up everything

and all to relive the feeling of

profound love and undying hope

never to be experienced again after

your heart has been maliciously

battered, bruised, and irreparably torn

Hip! Hip! Horray!

competing amongst some of the most

beautiful women in the world

for you are an attractive, yet

desperate girl who lives to throw

up your baton, wave your pom-poms,

and flirtatiously dip then twirl

a performance entailing a myriad

of backflips, animated jumps,

handstands, and acrobatic hoops

for your team is apt to begrudgingly

carry your dead weight while you

pretend to gush, submit, and then swoon

taking part in an important