Enough by Suzanne Buffam

Enough

by Suzanne Buffam

(from her 2010 book, The Irrationalist, published by Canarium Book)

I am wearing dark glasses inside the house

To match my dark mood.

I have left all the sugar out of the pie.

My rage is a kind of domestic rage.

I learned it from my mother

Who learned it from her mother before her

And so on.

Surely the Greeks had a word for this.

Now surely the Germans do.

The more words a person knows

To describe her private sufferings

The more distantly she can perceive t...