#title Sex & Revolution #author Marie Mason #SORTauthors Marie Mason; #date 2013 #source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/389-summer-2013/sex-revolution]] #lang en #pubdate 2013-09-16 #notes Fifth Estate #389, Summer, 2013 my flesh is rippling music dancing as I move my hands my lips across your supple body blending everything becomes bewildered unpretended in these moments of ecstatic rhythm reggae sweat your breath so still lingering upon my lips your body mine the last of the wine spilled between us in a kiss an offering not offered to some other god but shared these moments of ecstatic rhythm writhing in abandon Dionysus could not have taught me mysteries more powerful than making love all acts of pleasure consummate rebellion all conscious nakedness can shuffle off this mortal coil and by expanding span the growing chasm between Self and Not-Self eliminating borders to abandonment’s continuum a communion of surrender and resistance which is survival and our happiness think this: distances are dangerous illusions of distinctions are conclusions of extinction we must be in love with the world become it to save it from our own self-hatred lover, i caress the whole in you with every touch turning us away from sure destruction bring your lips again to mine and seal our sweet conspiracy of sex and revolution pleasure is our bread and wine and Anarchy our paradise chaos comes into the inner heart surrounds the world around just at the moment we dissolve our barriers against it in these moments of ecstatic rhythm we become the everywhere and everything at last, uncontrollable and free “Sex & Revolution,” also appeared in Fifth Estate, Spring/Summer 2005 [Fortieth Anniversary issue]