SUBURBIA

06.

Good Girls

01. A good girl is the fruit of a God and a Goddess / Wrapped in pastel pink as soon as raw flesh scrapes cold air / Her silver tears fill golden goblets for Gods to drain at feasts.

02. A good girl is concealed from the world / Locked in steel towers with porcelain playmates / Dolled up to look just like them.

03. A good girl never sees the Suburbia / Until she comes of age, her tender pink feet / Will never touch harsh concrete.

04. A good girl doesn't take a sip from the bottle / Labelled "Drink Me" in swirling cursive / But still swells like Alice in the rabbit hole.

05. A good girl is told to keep away from the boys / Mummy tells her she's "a strong, independent woman," / That as soon as she meets a man, she'll become a "victim"

06. A good girl asks how she'll be victimised / A Goddess can't answer her query but tells her / "It's the patriarchy, you can feel their oppression even now."

07. A good girl doesn't let objections leak from her lips / She won't tell her Mummy that she's the only one / Who makes her feel oppressed.

08. A good girl is independent, she decides when / She's come of age and it's her time / To step onto the concrete streets.

09. A good girl is our favourite toy / She's a blank canvas for us to paint / Fantasies of our corrupt city.

10. A good girl is always curious / So when we offer her a hand, she'll take it / And follow us anywhere.

11. A good girl doesn't allow herself to / Acknowledge that she loves the feeling of / Rebellion and smoke leaking from her lips.

12. A good girl returns home to her castle / At the end of a long day with us / We can see she's beginning to crack.

13. A good girl tells her Mummy all about her day / "I met the boys," she says, "They painted me / pictures of childish adventures in their suburban playground."

14. A good girl hangs her head in shame / When her mother locks her heavy door / Sealing her in the  cabinet with porcelain imitations.

15. A good girl feels guilt when she / Climbs through the gleaming glass / But she can't deny; she wants to be with us boys.

16. A good girl will always come back to us / We are her drug and she is an addict / She loves the fantasy, the danger, the adventure.

17. A good girl tries to forget that she will become / A Goddess because she yearns to be Godless / Like us, like our families, like our friends.

18. A good girl is always Godless at heart / She will worship us as if we were on thrones in heaven / And spit on those who tower above us on plastic platformed chairs.

19. A good girl will be loyal to her new masters / We are her friends, her lovers, her kings / We have corrupted her with our picturesque paintings.

20. A good girl will never end up as low as the Gods / As long as she sticks to our sides / And follows us anywhere.