Al J. Cuesta Poems

Rebel young man, rebel

For ‘tis in your rebellion you will grow

Rebel young girl, rebel
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The ideas flew out of our minds like paper planes out of our windows.


Soaring through the air like waves at sea,

Some useful landing in somebodies ears,
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All I see, 

All I perceive around me in this world, 

Almost all of it, 
Is often nothing more than a well marketed commercial; 

Airing dead not live, in this our fabricated, weaved, threaded, reality.


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When you realize you've already been baptized
There's no coming back, there's no changing color
Memories of today now become memories of tomorrow
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Unnerving critters
Crawl about casually
Causing unpleasant pain
Unpurposely
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We dream, we dream, we dream
While the boat has parted ahead of us, up stream

We float, we float, we float
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I think of you,
I don't

I love you,
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She gazes around too much
N' she gifts me with her profile
Tear her away from my side
I want to forget, I want to forget
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Surrounded by strangeness, people are out of touch,
Worried times and a-worried minds
Keep them a-wondering, but I don't change
Occurrences remain a mystery to the untrained beholding eye
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Confined, acutely refined to being alone, acutely refined to solitude
Thinking of ways to spend my time and procrastinating my way out of pondering
Seems in times of despair we still rely on servitude
We fall under the schemes laid upon us from above without blinking
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