"That year we hardly slept, waking like inmates"
The tone, I noticed, is nostalgic. "That year" indicates the event in the past. So what is the event? It is a divorce. I thought it was apt to say that they were like "inmates." Some marriages dissolve into misery quickly. I think maybe there is still a little bit of love left in the rough divorce. They cried when they parted, and this even bewildered the lawyer who had probably been through divorce cases multiple times. Also, the nature of the poem reveals love. The speaker is remembering this woman, so evidently she is still significant to him. The plastic mind doesn't remember things that are insignificant and unpleasant.
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