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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

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Comstock

Historical Figure
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

American moral reformer known for anti-vice campaigns and censorship laws

Detailed Definition
Anthony Comstock led 19th-century crusades against obscenity, targeting literature and reproductive rights. Though not ancient, he appears in modern poetry as a symbol of puritanical repression, the war on art, and the policing of morality under the guise of virtue.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anthony Comstock appears in 20th-century protest poetry as a symbol of censorship and moral policing; Poets reference the “Comstock Laws” to critique suppression of artistic and sexual freedom; In feminist verse, Comstock embodies patriarchal control over women’s bodies; Modern free speech poetry invokes Comstock as a cautionary figure; His crusade against “obscenity” inspires satirical poems on puritanical hypocrisy; Poets contrast Comstock’s rigidity with bohemian creativity.
Additional Notes
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) was an American anti-vice crusader who championed censorship laws (“Comstockery”); though not ancient, his name became synonymous with puritanical repression; in poetry, “Comstock” may symbolize censorship, moral panic, or the policing of art—relevant in modernist or countercultural verse (e.g., by Ginsberg or Ferlinghetti) defending artistic freedom against moralistic intrusion.
Also Known As
Anthony Comstock (no widely recognized historical aliases beyond full name)
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