Thanks for that analysis of the poem--I'd have missed some of those details if you hadn't pointed them out, and whoever this poet is, he or she deserves to have them fully appreciated. The poem doesn't make me sad--I don't see the characters quite the same as Janet does, though I do have a vague sense of their being the object of some sly joke by the author. It's that rotting cantaloupe at the end, a slightly ridiculous object, and a reminder of what's since happened to the man and woman.
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