The figueira beach bar

 all the younger teens congregated there
outside the beach bar
where the best music would play
A generation of youth

a drop of culture and a few thousand liters of beauty
mimic into sensual gestures 
The ones people oggle
swoon over

yeah imitate those ones
Turn up the heat 
sweet stick of lip balm 
dealing the sticky glistening

summer not gone
last weeks still tight and inviting
short dresses overpromise
The sand and the artificial lake

the trends come and go
the pinings and the longings
that weigh young hearts down
causing them to sink into trouble

Like the very tall mango tree laiden by December
ripening like hot coals forming in a fire
the weight of the sweetness too much to bear
And for the excess rot and nothing else

No bite size entertainment
whiskey and cocaine gets smuggled in
conventional organisms
predictable effects

games and games
To be played through love
through work and what's left of existence
Yet for the moment relax on the sand

the sunsets and in a group 
you'll massage egos with dexterity
changing the expression on young faces
dimples beauty reflecting harder than the clear water

Autumn was just a myth
and summer was over reaching so nicely
The water and breeze continued warm
inviting copying the prior weekends

Mimicking them as you do your peers
freedom play with freedom ball
A freaky tardis that you toss around and admire
yet you are unable to enter

And out here you've collected the clauses
from the book of law like tatoos inside the brain
falsify your feelings for the group
The bar isn't serving alcohol

Someone has a flask so what a treat
An illusion of rebellion
An exciting emptiness
left over from inebriation

you can belong with the beautiful people
sucking up the last of those harder rays
almost getting a burn
envy flux and apathy cream

I know you obsess of the same shared dream
frivilous useless luxury
flaunted and stained and flaunted some more
with such a demand

So few can have it
and watch how they show it
And wonder how the superstition of crime
has come to roost upon the land

So drink your last swig at the figueira beach bar
with your click and siblings bubbly and mimicking
keep all those gestures out and commit those dance moves
Over the curves and tan lines oh

over the plastic surgery
the piece of yourself that never was
The illumination of the quasi medievil church
Lit up like cheap mcdonalds

Getting to the ice in your glass
you travel in your mind to Miami
With some special identity
some privilege unmentioned

with your poor story packed away 
and ready to tell next to the bag of drugs
and a receipt for your plastic surgery
Put yourself on display

The decades ahead meaningless
in the pool of youth and thick lies
stealing a cigarette, stealing friends
stealing test answers and hearts along the way

Led astray by an imaginary picture of the world
the temporary things you thought would last
You saw them leave totally disappear
still believing those fleeting moments would return

Begging them to come again as they fade
like the sun behind the mountain at the end of the day
dulling the lake and welcoming mosquitoes
Will you put your drink down and call your parents

They too can't save you raving in their own version
of random convenient facts that comfort us in this commotion
Your friends pile into the car and leave figuera beach bar
The lip balm falls between the seats and you can't reach it

At home a decade later you reach down and find it
But it didn't wake you from your living slumber
your juggling of the freedom balls
without entry

feeling exclusive and unique
In the majority who fudge out the same opinions
In a group of people who live for one false thought
out of millions that many groups cling to

Each forgetting their beach bar years
and the lessons that might prevent their current blindness
Zombies are grown in such unquestioning routines
searching for their own brain and quick strong drink

to dim down their IQ