#cookie yaps

Glad sam started a small debate of bubbamiah vs perklin bcs of this

- the poem is what lets them express their thoughts out loud, not thinking of the consequences as they don't dig too deep into these words.

- franklin is afraid to show his poems to percy because he sees it as a vulnerable and sacred act. Percy is not afraid to read his own poems out loud because they don't truly come from his heart

- venetia and lanessas father restricts them to read and write. venetia is even more restricted as her arm is broken from an accident, yet that doesn't stop her father for putting this weight on her.

- venetia is told not to read the music but to hear it and copy. she's not allowed to understand and train, but to mimic the sound and the action

- franklin makes sure that he does not see himself equal to percy, making sure to bring himself down. though percy doesn't care about status, he cares deeply about franklin

- love is something that runs deep in poems as Franklin has said. it's a drive that helps people change, for it can run from inside yourself or from others. percy tries to take franklin's poems because he never found love in his own creations, not even from within him.

- how venetia and lanessa lean on each other for support, they have escaped from their home and went to the reading because they had each other.

- venetia calling percy and franklin's love as art because it is moving and encouraging and it comes from deep within the heart.

Doesn't matter.