CJ,

I hope you understand.  I mean, I really didn’t want to come off badly, but how am I supposed to take it when someone who doesn’t understand me – and hardly knows me – wants to take my poetry and add it to music that is not only unrefined, but something I don’t like.  It’s nothing against you necessarily.  Nothing against you as a person.  Just your taste in musical style, let alone your approach to the situation.  You don’t just IM someone and say “Hey can you email your poem, I’m going to sing it.”  There are steps to take before taking another artist’s work into your hands and interpreting it.

You ask when the poem was written, what inspired it, what it meant to them…  There are preliminary actions to this end result you were looking for.  I’m not one for following structure like this, but with this particular piece…  A piece about my feet and how they’ve taken me through my life – let alone how I create with them because of their strength and power.  Please understand if I’m hesitant to let you reshape it to music that wouldn’t fit, keys that shouldn’t be, and chords that know not what they are harming.

I hate to sound like such a bitch, but it’s my art.  And it’s all I have not only to myself, but to my name.

Besides, you’re the person that just listens to something repeatedly and copies it line by line.  By you asking so nonchalantly, you’re not only underestimating the piece itself (through your approach) I can also have the right to assume you’ve already copied it down and tweaked it.

Besides, the poem is on my myspace along with the audio.  Use your brain please.

Annoyed,
Kayla