<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420181" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Strange Bedfellows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first night that they slept apart<br>-I think because he had a cough-<br>He grabbed his pillow from their bed<br>Mimed a kiss and then was off.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their separation lingered on<br>like cancer growing in a womb<br>Days into weeks turned into years<br>each spouse in their separate room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Anniversaries came apace<br>To the separate cells wherein they dwell<br>All marveled at “togetherness.”<br>None could glimpse their private hell<br>.<br>No kiss, no glance, no warm embrace<br>As would ward off a winter’s chills<br>No passionate heat or casual lust<br>Not that either needed pills</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then one day he failed to wake<br>Cool to her touch, she felt his arm<br>Detachedly she looked upon<br>Her love, long dead, now gone</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lay down on the bed once shared<br>And swallowed pills enough and more<br>To join her fellow in that sleep<br>They’d share together evermore.</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=420181" data-title="Strange Bedfellows de John F. McCullagh" data-description="The first night that they slept apart -I think because he had a cough- He grabbed his pillow from their bed Mimed a kiss and then was off. Their separation lingered on like cancer growing in a womb Days into weeks turned into years each spouse in..."></div> </div> </div>

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