1. vanessa maynard
poem: hopeless
I played connect the dots with your beauty marks
And I ended up with picture perfect sheet music
I read your musical notes with a composer’s eyes
And heard out song for the first time
My spine is still tingling, mental images of your fine tune
is what I’ve been nodding my head to lately
Every now and then you can catch me humming
your nudity under my heavy breath
interperetation:
The poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent his female lover
as a metaphor for his other love: music. He reads her body as
a kind of music-making machine, letting himself create music
through her body. I would like to juxtapose in this exercise the
intimacy of love-making to the intimacy of music-making.

2. I played connect the dots
with your beauty marks
And I ended up with pic
ture perfect sheet music
I read your musical notes
with a composer's eyes
And heard out song for the
first time
My spine is still tingling,
mental images of your fine
tuneThe poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent his female lover as a metaphor for his other love: music. He
reads her body as a kind of music-making machine, letting himself create music through her body. I would like
to juxtapose in this exercise the intimacy of love-making to the intimacy of music-making.
is what I've been nodding
my head to lately
Every now and then you
can catch me humming
your nudity under my
heavy breath

3. I played connect the dots with your beauty marks
And I ended up with picture perfect sheet music
I read your musical notes with a composer's eyes
And heard out song for the first time
My spine is still tingling, mental images of your
fine tune
is what I've been nodding my head to lately
Every now and then you can catch me humming
your nudity under my heavy breath
The poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent his female lover as a metaphor for
his other love: music. He reads her body as a kind of music-making machine, letting
himself create music through her body. I would like to juxtapose in this exercise
the intimacy of love-making to the intimacy of music-making.

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And heard out song for the first time
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like himself create music
through her body. I
ting body asmachine,of mu-
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her love: for He oth-
er his female lover as
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cisum teehs tcefrep erutcip htiw pu dedne I dnA
seye s'resopmoc a htiw seton lacisum ruoy daer I
emit tsrif eht rof gnos tuo draeh dnA
enut enif ruoy fo segami latnem ,gnilgnit llits si enips yM
yletal ot daeh ym gniddon neeb ev'I tahw si
gnimmuh em hctac nac uoy neht dna won yrevE
htaerb yvaeh ym rednu ytidun ruoy
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7. The poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent his female lover as a metaphor
for his other love: music. He reads her body as a kind of music-making ma-
chine, letting himself create music through her body. I would like to jux-
tapose in this exercise the intimacy of love-making to the intimacy of music-
making.
skram ytuaeb ruoy htiw stod eht tcennoc deyalp I
cisum teehs tcefrep erutcip htiw pu dedne I dnA
seye s'resopmoc a htiw seton lacisum ruoy daer I
emit tsrif eht rof gnos tuo draeh dnA
enut enif ruoy fo segami latnem ,gnilgnit llits si enips yM
yletal ot daeh ym gniddon neeb ev'I tahw si
gnimmuh em hctac nac uoy neht dna won yrevE
htaerb yvaeh ym rednu ytidun ruoy

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9. htiw stod eht tcennoc deyalp I
skram ytuaeb ruoy
erutcip htiw pu dedne I dnA
cisum teehs tcefrep
a htiw seton lacisum ruoy daer I
seye s'resopmoc
tsrif eht rof gnos tuo draeh dnA
emit
latnem ,gnilgnit llits si enips yM
enut enif ruoy fo segami
ym gniddon neeb ev'I tahw si
yletal ot daeh
hctac nac uoy neht dna won yrevE
gnimmuh em
yvaeh ym rednu ytidun ruoy
htaerb
of music-making.
cise the intimacy of love-making to the intimacy
her body. I would like to juxtapose in this exer-
ing machine, letting himself create music through
music. He reads her body as a kind of music-mak-
his female lover as a metaphor for his other love:
The poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent

10. The poem, by Sage Francis, seems to represent his female lover as a metaphor for his other love: music. He
reads her body as a kind of music-making machine, letting himself create music through her body. I would
like to juxtapose in this exercise the intimacy of love-making to the intimacy of music-making.
skram ytuaeb ruoy htiw stod eht tcennoc deyalp I
cisum teehs tcefrep erutcip htiw pu dedne I dnA
seye s'resopmoc a htiw seton lacisum ruoy daer I
emit tsrif eht rof gnos tuo draeh dnA
enut enif ruoy fo segami latnem ,gnilgnit llits si enips yM
yletal ot daeh ym gniddon neeb ev'I tahw si
gnimmuh em hctac nac uoy neht dna won yrevE
htaerb yvaeh ym rednu ytidun ruoy

11. The poem, by Sage Francis, se ems t represent his
o
fem ale lov er as a m etaphor for his other lov e:
music. He reads her body as a kind of music-
m aking m achine, letting himself creat music
e
through her body. I would lik e t juxt o apose
in this exercise the intim acy of lov e-m aking t o
the intim acy of music-m aking.
skram tuaeb ruoy htiw tod eht tcennoc deyalp I
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cisum te ehs tcefrep e ru cip htiw pu dedne I dnA
t
seye 'sresopmoc a htiw ston lacisum ruoy dae r I
e
emt tsrif eht rof gnos tuo d raeh dnA
i
enu enif ruoy fo segami la nem ,gnilgnt llts si enips yM
t t i i
yltal t daeh ym gniddon ne eb e'vI tahw si
e o
gnimmuh em htac nac uoy neht dna won yrevE
c
htae rb yvaeh ym rednu tidun ruoy
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