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Sep 2017
All the good girls don't want to be good anymore
They want to get undressed
They're stripping to their ******* and dancing to Take me to Church
Good girls getting high and eating carbohydrates
Good girls wondering what was so great about being good
About being skinny and sitting in the front of the class
Good girls shredding their 4.0 transcript and missing work for the first time
Good girls are ruining their best pair of shoes in the rain in the parking lot
All the good girls just traded in their carpools for motorcycles
They've burned their old textbooks
They're trading greek yogurt for whiskey
Good girls don't know what danger feels like
They don't understand near misses or almost endings
Icarus flew too close to the sun
But Icarus was a beautiful backlit silhouette before he dripped out of existence and drowned
All the good girls thought they were drowning,
Thought they could drink themselves out
Maybe their angel wings would melt in the neon lights and they would be human again
All the grit they put into class was supposed to hold them together
But they've decided it was just sand paper, tearing their skin off
They've swiped eyeshadow on their ******* and called it art

All the good girls woke up hungover for the first time in a stranger's bed
All the phone lines are jammed: they're calling their father's and their priests
They want to confess and apologize
They've thrown away all of the gifts they have been blessed with
Except one
She stopped believing in miracles
Something was different
Maybe it was the way she cut her hair
Or the tattoo she got on her ankle last night screaming courage out to her
But she'll kiss him one more time before she leaves and never see him again
She wants to stain his memories until she is nothing but a figment of his mind
She'll walk out to her car with just a tshirt over her *******, barefoot with heels in hand
She wants to drive him mad
Maybe it was the way she filled in her eyebrows
Or exactly the right amount of *****, but
Her mother was dead
And her father was a conservative who believed in closing the wage gap
She could be revolutionary
Please comment :)
Lydia
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Lydia  18/F/Pennsylvania
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