The happy place

I found a dead mouse in a mouse trap a few days ago, the poor fella was stuck with her little mouse hand in the ”guillotine”, to die incorrectly of pain and dehydration, rather than swiftly—which paints in my mind that scene from the Green Mile… You know that one with the electric chair?

Except there was no malice with the trap, just indifference.

Coincidentally, there was a mouse in that book too, or maybe a rat.

Anyway

Her mouse hand looked just like that of a human, except tiny

Grabbing for the cheese

it’s the type of tragedy which happens everywhere every day but nobody writes about that (generally)

there’s no eulogy

Death is everywhere, like Fly on a windscreen song by Depeche Mode

Indeed

Life is frail and precious