Suburban Sonnet

SUBURBAN SONNET

She practises a fugue, though it can matter
to no one now if she plays well or not.
We believe this represents that the woman still holds on to her dreams of being a professional musician of some description. She had the ability once to be great but it was sacrificed for the suburban family ritual. No one is here to listen to her playing now, so the music's accuracy and content is for the woman only.
Beside her on the floor two children chatter,
then scream and fight. She hushes them. A pot
boils over. As she rushes to the stove
These few lines show the overwhelming loss of control of the woman's life. Her dreams and all she wanted slipped out of her hands when the suburban lifestyle set in.
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