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Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Affidavit

Law And Justice
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A written statement sworn to be true before an authorized official. In poetry, it can lend a voice the weight of testimony.

Detailed Definition
An affidavit is a document in which a person formally swears that the facts stated are true. Its language is associated with evidence, signatures, and legal consequence, making it useful when a poem stages witness, confession, or historical record. A poet may frame a personal recollection as an affidavit to question whether memory can be sworn, verified, or trusted under pressure.
Example
Example in poetry:
A documentary poem may include an affidavit from a witness whose sworn statement preserves what others tried to erase; “Her affidavit held the morning’s facts,” a poet might write, emphasizing the careful detail of sworn testimony; A speaker can compose an affidavit to memory, swearing that a lost friend once stood beneath a particular tree; In a poem about immigration or eviction, an affidavit may represent the vulnerable voice required to prove one’s own life
Additional Notes
An affidavit is a sworn written statement, so its language suggests precision, accountability, and the risk of perjury if it is false. A poem shaped like an affidavit may present facts in numbered, restrained, or documentary form while hinting at feelings that official language cannot contain. Compare testimony, deposition, and witness statement.
Also Known As
Sworn Statement Sworn Declaration
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