how to win a cupid award

[Lizzie]

how to win a cupid award

run breakneck
and unaware
into the glass

you'll shatter
into a thousand
lies

[CRNDLSM]

The first half is cute, been there, broke a pair of glasses, the second half makes sense in terms of what we do for love, but it makes me think this is failure, which contradicts the award in the title, which seems to want to empbasize the cuteness, instruction 'how to' , but it could be sarcasm, 'winner of the cupid award',. It's making me think, maybe I don't like the word thousand, but it doesn't seem out of place. I don't know, thanks for sharing

[rayheinrich]

how to win a cupid award

run breakneck
and unaware
into the glass

you'll shatter
into a thousand
lies

Does it reveal how old and cynical I am that when I read the title I had no second thoughts about it,
it seemed deeply ironic and spoke directly to me. Definitely the kind of poem I love. Oh man, I've
certainly earned a few Cupid Awards in my life! I'd be thinking how smart and rational I was this time,
not going to act like a stupid teenager. It was possible, I told myself, to fall in love in a reasonable
adult fashion. BAM! Why had I been running and who put the glass there? Maybe you meant the lies
in a slightly different way, but for me it was the lies I told myself about how smart I was.
Anyway, that's a great poem; short and sweet and powerful, just like I like them.

[rowens]

I was thinking about Phoebe's fiance in Charmed.

Then I thought about whether or not you are now single.

In that order.

It shows your age that you didn't say a thousand LITTLE lies. We all know what's big.

[Fearful Symmetry]

For me, the title and the first stanza says it all

The second stanza, and I really hope this doesn’t cause any hurt feelings , reads to me like something we might read in a poet’s early journals/diaries after a break-up.

[Lizzie]

This piece was part of a thread, written to a prompt.

Sometimes it's difficult for me to see a piece objectively when it's surrounded by the context of a prompt and the other pieces in a thread, and I think that happened here to some degree. I'm guessing that the cliche of "a million little pieces" wasn't fully or properly subverted and just read as a straightforward cliche. Perhaps the hyperbole of 'thousand' isn't helping.  

As far as pop culture references, I try not to use them much because shows and artists get cancelled or fall out of fashion and then your work drags along behind. The rest of the time I just do what I want. But, here, I wasn't trying to reference any particular artist or show. 

I think it's so interesting how some people read this as being very teenager and others are like, wow, you're so old. It's always curious how interpretations differ; I am eternally intrigued by the human mind. 

I appreciate all sincerely-offered thoughts and responses, even if unflattering.  >< 

[Fearful Symmetry]

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This piece was part of a thread, written to a prompt.

That makes a lot of sense now how you got from A to B 

[DonMar]

how to win a cupid award

run breakneck
and unaware
into the glass

you'll shatter
into a thousand
lies

I love the clarity and conciseness. The engaging title and the first stanza are a perfect pair, and I'm enjoying what I feel is the wry tone of acknowledging past (and possibly ongoing) errors of judgement in the relationship stakes.

The observation in the poem is I'm sure relatable for most people.