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What a Relief (Re-Leaf)
Maria Esmerelda Frances Iggepop is just home from work and is exhausted. It is autumn and she is enjoying some wonderful fresh air. She is playing a G# on her guitar with a capo on the 4th fret. Her dog is listening as she is composing, and there is a person listening behind the fence. The song she is writing is called “Why Don’t You Leaf Me Alone?” It is amazing that she can play the guitar so well given the length of her beautifully manicured purple fingernails. She is seated on her grandma’s bench, and the new garden shed is in the back behind the fence. It is leaning a bit to the left.
The two women pictured on the face of the guitar are significant because she had two mothers. She is nervous because one mother lives three blocks away, and the other is coming to town from Alaska. The mothers are identical twins separated at birth. The Alaska mom is on the dark side. This mother was in trouble with the police.
Music calms Maria Esmerelda Frances, and even better is the fact that 1960’s music makes her feel free. She is trying out for a group that is touring Europe and when she goes, she will find her father who the song is about. When she was naming the song, she first chose “Leaf-ing on a Jet Plane.” When she googled this title, she found that name was already taken so she changed the title to “Why Don’t You Leaf Me Alone?” She thinks playing “Ripple” by the Grateful Dead is the next song she will do today. Then she is moving on to “Deep River Blues” because she is a great blues vocalist and loves, loves, loves to wear blue. She LOVES blues music! She also loves fashion statements and visual expression in addition to her music. This is shown by the feather she has on her left shoulder.
In the end, she reconciled with her family, decided to leaf on a jet plane, and they all lived happily ever after.
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