Thursday, April 22, 2010

People Getting Divorced

The poem "People Getting Divorced" by Lawrence Ferlingehtti seems a bit odd to me. The words and the layout are unusual. Obvisiously this poem is about someone who just divorced. It shows that they really have no place to go, except their car which they should be lucky to have. The car might come as a sort of new home for some time, driving aimlessly, being used as a bed, even as a closet. As time passes they don't exactly know what has happened, what will happen to either them or the person they were married to. There's so many questions on where the next step of their journey of life will take them or the other, will it be nothing or happiness in another soul. Yet in the end there is so hope and some healing of the body, mind, heart, and soul and life is not yet over for the author, one chapter ended, the page is turned, and another chapter begins.

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