And that phrase – 'sleeping like a baby'. Some blonde said it blithely on the subway the other day. I wanted to lie down next to her and scream for five hours in her ear...
I ordered a CD online that promised to put even the most colicky baby to sleep. I sounded like a giant heart beating. As if you had been forced to live inside such a heart with no possibility of escape.
Our friend R stopped by one night to see us while it was playing. 'Wow. That is some bad techno music,' he said. He sat on the couch and drank beer while I paced with the baby...
Thump, thump, thump, thump went the music. But the heartbeat song only enraged the baby. On and on she screamed. 'This is intense,' R said after an hour or two. R who is not our friend anymore and began not to be on the night in question.