Sophie Ellis-Bextor; ‘Murder On The Dancefloor’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n“A rat doesn’t drown in a bucket of water. A rat dies from exhaustion while fighting to get out of the bucket of water. A rat never gives up.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About this time, I can see a look of confusion in her face. She’s wondering what these things mean. I begin to touch her naked body as she thinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think living is like being a rat in a bucket of water, always scratching and struggling to stay alive. Best we can do is find moments of peace.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think about my words while gently touching the outline of her face, noticing her in the morning light for the first time. Our first sleepover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Certain things people remember forever. Some say those things play like a movie in our head moments before we die. I hope they’re right.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I hope moments like this play in my head moments before I die. I hope they comfort me, make me smile, because I’m scared to die.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I’d like to think, in that moment of paralyzing fear, when my heart is about to stop, that you’ll be there, if only to give me one more kiss.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“My husband would kill you if he ever found out about us,” they like to usually tell me afterwards, after-the-fact, nakedly holding each other. What do they want me to do with this information? Worry? Fuck worry. Get fearful? Fuck fear. It’s not my first time hearing these exact words. I sometimes think about being … Continue reading I Wanna Put My Log In Your Fireplace<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2656,2655,2654,2658,16,19,2552,2657,2653],"class_list":["post-10992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-girl-is-a-gun","tag-halsey","tag-happiness-is-a-warm-gun","tag-murder-on-the-dancefloor","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-ramblings","tag-sophie-ellis-bextor","tag-the-breeders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10992"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11036,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10992\/revisions\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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