Poem found here: "Enough Music" by Dorianne Laux The title feels aggressive. "Enough Music" Is this a command? Is this a statement? "Enough" is such a loaded word that the first thing I think of is of someone at a breaking point, like they had enough. But the poem doesn't go in an aggressive rather a relatable, maybe somewhat mundane scene. Sometimes, when we're on a long drive, and we've talked enough and listened to enough music and stopped twice, once to eat, once to see the view, we fall into this rhythm of silence [...] I think it's important to acknowledge this sentence and how much work it's doing. First, the overall sentence meanders from one point to the next as though to mimic a long drive. In a short poem, there's specific ways this is achieved: the usage of "Sometimes" in the beginning of the poem detracts a sense of urgency in the sentence, the usage of "and" brings a repetition to a poem th...
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