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Good Girl goes to a party and counts all her drinks.

Good Girl never drinks too much.

Good Girl won’t call you out on your jokes.

Good Girl smiles nervously in hopes that you like her.

Good Girl makes fun of herself before you can.

Good Girl swallows your insults and spits them out as a giggle.

Good Girl plays dead when you kiss her.

Good Girl wakes up covered in you

and is too drunk and too sweet

to push you off.

Good Girl swallows her anger and untangles your excuses.

Good Girl spends the rest of the night comforting you.

Good Girl, so sick of being good.

So tired of kindness that is really trained silence.

Good Girl becoming fast moving current.

Good Girl becoming wave.

Good Girl ready to drown

the next hand that dives into her uninvited.

Good Girl, come take a dip in her.

I dare you.