Platonic Love in the 1970s                                                    

‘Human nature was originally one and we were a whole, and the pursuit of the whole is called love.’                                                                                                                               ―Plato, The Symposium

Readily, steadily,
Plato’s idealism
surges through campus and
breaches the dorms;

ancient hypotheses
easily infiltrate
twentieth-century 
cultural norms.

Curfew-oblivious
teleological
arguments, buzzing like
pheromone swarms,

stimulate coeds while
muscular undergrads                                                                           
Neoplatonically                                                                                       
study their Forms. 

Alex Steelsmith
 
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