Getting Out

Cleopatra Mathis depicts a strange couple in the poem Getting Out. The couple has been divorced, but they still are sort of friendly. They exchange letters every year, and both claim they are happy now. I get the feeling that the woman is the one that is still holding onto the relationship they had. She says, "I have the last unshredded pictures of our matching eyes and hair." Based on this detail, it appears that she believes they were perfect for each other by saying they had matching eyes and hair. Oh wait, here's a twist, what if they are actually cousins, and the lawyer had to separate them because it is against the law for them to be married. That would explain why they cried and held hands when they were separated. I think this is an unlikely theory though because she says that he had made previous attempts to leave before. However, the cousins theory would be a pretty interesting twist.