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escape hatches
August 22, 2013
escape hatches are
everywhere; in stars and eyes
chipped mugs, old friends and late nights
© Meena K., Groton, MA
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It's a haikuuu, I just clicked the wrong button, haha. Dude, you, you always extract the meaning from my poetry so far beyond what I see in it. It's like if I drooled in a petri dish just for the hell of it and you showed up at my doorstep at three am with a sixteen-page report on its chemical content, ahaha. I love you bro xD
To me, this poem is talking about how people find some escape from reality in anything they can find. Some in stars or the eyes—perhaps of some unknow stranger? O_O—chipped mugs, as in coffee so they don't sleep, or as some people even drink wine or beer or whatever from mugs; old friends in order to forget the new problems. Or even the old exes, just for the h*ll of it. Or late nights which can be taken any way anyone wants to. I'm puzzled though by the structure of the poem. I'm not sure if it's 5,7,5 or some other structure. Or if I'm counting wrong. Regardless, it's amazing. Congrats, friend, on receiving another Editors' Choice! Who could be more worthy?
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