<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420156" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Red Streak</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a dry, sunny day in June.<br>that fact she would never forget.<br>It was the day she lost her partner<br>to a surfeit of regret.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She had taken their little daughter, <br>the product of donated sperm, <br>to the nearby Hillside Park<br>and picnic'd on the side of a berm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jane had declined to come with them.<br>Jane was in one of her 'moods'.<br>Perhaps she shouldn't have left her, <br>but she thought Jane just needed to brood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jane was her beautiful partner<br>erratic, mercurial, bright.<br>Jane, who could light up the heavens<br>like a bolt from the blue in the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They returned to a silent apartment.<br>It was the stuff of nightmares, not dreams.<br>A red streak of blood in the bathroom<br>Her little girl started to scream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A kind neighbor cared for her daughter<br>as she spoke to police in a fog.<br>The M.E.'s van came for the body.<br>Seeing Jane lifeless was odd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tomorrow, she must make arrangements.<br>She needn't bear this all alone.<br>It was time that she spoke with Jane's parents.<br>Softly weeping, she picked up the phone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420156" data-title="Red Streak de John F. McCullagh" data-description="It was a dry, sunny day in June. that fact she would never forget. It was the day she lost her partner to a surfeit of regret. She had taken their little daughter, the product of donated sperm, to the nearby Hillside Park and picnic'd on the si..."></div> </div> </div>

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