Why can’t lust be love and love be lust?

Up late watching slug porn, you confess
you had a boyfriend who could spin you

like that, slug grace and slug ballet—we don’t
touch the topic of slime—and those eyes

dangling from tentacle tips must be a
kind of love or lust, sighting farther and

nearer all at once. (But are those eyes?)
Slug sublimity suggests love’s a drag,

touch that lingers and leaves a wet trail of
memory and What did we do before

YouTube? Boob tube. Boobs we have none; slugs,
of course, don’t care, can’t tell girl from boy,

(being, you know, hermaphrodites), and only
want flesh to fly. Forget their infamous

languor—here’s litheness in loving, buoyant
miracles of want, one slug spiraling

on the axis of another like a globe
slapped by an insolent hand. Neither old

nor young, we’re familiar with sluggishness,
too tired to explain why nothing makes us

spin like that: a-swirl, a pirouette, a gyre!
It’s either fucking or marriage, I say,

saying more than I mean. Why can’t lust be
love and love be lust? you’re always asking,

even now as the slugs begin their sluggish
withdrawal—each complete in love and lust;

each mother and father to what they’ve made
together; each alone, content, and free.

by Jennifer Chang

rain

i love walking in the rain more than just about anything in the world

the Symposium

i finished the Symposium last night

it was definitely worth the read

it calls cultural norms into question both how they are created and wether they are valid

thirty year old men having sex with fourteen year old boys sounds disgusting to us now

they would have found hookup culture equally disgusting

the celestial form of love described in the Symposium is very attractive to me

i think that it is perfectly feasible to have that kind of love with someone of the opposite sex

i hope that i go back and reread this in a few years

love and forgiveness

i came across this website through speaking of faith

i haven't read very much of it yet but i love the premise