DDCPoetry

 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...