Ms. Jean installs herself upon the stool,
stiff as a silhouette, so as not to spill
her brimming glass of secret self and send
the girls in pleated skirts to fathom sound
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Original use of Italian or Petrarchan sonnet form, with octave set-up and sestet for conclusion. Pararhymes/slant rhymes indicate satiric tone.