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| All materials property of Rajean Gallagher, 2005 |
| *Erotiki ormi is (hopefully--and let me know please if I am wrong here!) Latin for sex. **Le petit mort is French for "the little death." This is a phrase used in reference to orgasm, which is why I find the phrase so intriguing. |
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| (Le Petit Mort) The Little Death* Rajean Gallagher The question that drives us resides in our silence. Whispers between us becomes frustrated violence. Re-fusion denied us ignites in fine silence. Erotiki ormi reduced to blind, mute defiance. The answer to the question resides in final silence. Le petit mort is what destroys and reminds us. Le Petit Mort Revised The question that drives us resides in fine silence le petit mort is what destroys and defines us. |