Getting Out

I found this poem interesting and a little sad. The speaker in the poem is nostalgic about her situation and finds it sad herself. The speaker and the person she is addressing are deciding to separate. This separation was an agreement, but both parties feel sad about carrying it out. Coming to another point, I did not understand where the author got the title for this poem. It is titled "Getting Out," but neither of the characters want to get out of the relationship. They both feel regretful about separating. Even the lawyer in the poem was bewildered "when [they] cried, [on] the last day" (21). Maybe "getting out" could mean getting back out into the world to meet someone new and forget about the person the speaker was with before.