Yesterday's Hanging Over, par Joe Marflak

Yesterday's Hanging Over

Been a lot on my mind

So I put some down in lines

Watching the sunlight reap last night’s stitching

I guess the alcohol patches nothing.

I pulled the thread beside my bed and all I found

were rusty springs and stuffing.

The last cigarette, glowing to the end smoke rises, killing to fill your hunger

i see past the horizon, beyond the… If people only knew how fast a min… These blue eyes see past grey skie…

your cigarette glows over the TV… grey clouds emanate in this grotes…

Life repeats, I said life repeats. All my life is war and retreats. War and retreats, No sign of peace,

expressions endless as the horizon from high to low washing away as the tides do some so afraid to smile for risk o…

Haven’t you heard! There is srength by numbers My family has been torn for years… What reasons, I wondered. Now we are like strangers.

The more things change The more I feel strange The times on my mind Are hard to find real But somehow still remains

Insecure the feelings here steer this car Not a clue to where I’ll go

To be a poet. Is it knowing self-worth? If that is truly something, It wasn’t given at birth. Words are sharp, they cut like kni…

Think deep and sink in to thought for with time comes rhyme and my time can’t be bought but they say time is money

We all sit here and take a look. Comparing lives on a fake book, seeing how you’re photoshopped fac… For what, just to pass some time.

The pencil my blood And paper lined the same Like each and every vein They carry the graphite I used to write through the night

I don’t understand let me through let me through I have two hands just like you yet mine have been scarred and bro…

It’s the dollar bill that kills cheap thoughts been bought from the man that said you cant

Sailing at night or sailing in mor… all sailors take warning. We live in a tide of lows. With sewage that backflows through…