PARADOXIA (14 page)
Authors: Lunch Lydia
Lydia is the nicest girl I know.
She'll swallow yr boy psychosis and translate it into some ambi-sexual alchemy.
She's sweet.
She will eat you and inject yr DNA into her brain and figure you out.
She's strange and dirty; but it's only because you are.
She wants in. That's because all boys want in.
She's the only girl I know who not only gets the message but decodes the motherfucker, rewrites it from a wholly unified perspective, and delivers the report back to yr house. Which is naturally consumed in flames.
She's fucked up.
She's so fucked up she can glean goodness from chaos.
She loves a good ending.
She knows that orgasm is Apocalypse all the time. And it's already too late.
She knows how to have a really good time.
She can spread joy.
She's gorgeous.
She can lure fascist beasts to honey with a whiff of her thigh.
She can eviscerate them in their own hideous pools of selfish shame.
She can feel you, and feel no shame.
She can love you.
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