Because Fearless explained it . . .

and I love Fearless and his stories.

La Petite Vie
Alan Edward Butt

Love is the kindest
expression
of absence---

Or else
is a day
by the river,

in which by
motion
it becomes clear---

there have been
in an hour an
infinite train

of rivers, & which
did you want
to see? One

comes slowly
to realize
there is no evading things

(the heart will have
its way, though
its will go

unfulfilled),
& there is no shame
in this.

The pleasure in this world---
soft breeze, soft
thighs, a bit of music,

words, that make
a good sound---
suggest when taken

whole that the
thing
the body longs for

is not & never has been
some petite mort,
a true thing

known to grass
& the elderly man
with a kind word

in greeting. And
the woman saying
that she is about

to come, as in
going to arrive---
at last to fill

the body held so long
by stewards
in her name.

Celebrating St. Patrick's Day by giving y'all the same lesson in French that Det. Bobby, "Fearless" Smith gave Markie Mark's brother in Boomtown. La petite mort is the french expression for an orgasm. Its literal meaning is "the little death."

In the same first episode of Boomtown, Fearless tells another amazing story:
There was this wave way out in the ocean. He was just racing along having a great time. Sun light glinting, sparkling, just flying. Until one day he look ahead and he saw wave after wave in front of him crashing on the beach and he got scared. And this older wave in front of him said, "I know what your problem is. You've been having so much fun being a wave that you forgot you're just part of the ocean."

I'm one of the last people of my generation who has actually touched an 8-track. More specifically, this 8-track.



Favorite track from this album, In My Room. So in my room, on Fearless, I'm just catching waves (I literally own surfing sheets, they're pretty rad).