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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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Dressed to kill

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Dressed in exceptionally stylish or glamorous clothing with the specific aim of attracting attention and admiration; it often implies dressing for a special occasion.

Detailed Definition
Dressed to kill means dressed in a striking, glamorous, or powerfully attractive way. In poetry, the idiom can explore beauty as performance, seduction, social armour, or threat. The violent verb “kill” gives elegance an edge, suggesting that appearance can wound, conquer, or dominate. It may suit poems about fashion, desire, vanity, gender performance, nightlife, or public self-presentation. Used ironically, it can expose the cost of being looked at, or the way style becomes a weapon in social life.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet could describe a society beauty as dressed to kill, suggesting elegance with a dangerous edge; In a comic verse, the village dandy arrives dressed to kill and trips in the mud; The phrase can make glamour feel aggressive, as when the queen enters dressed to kill; A modern love poem might use dressed to kill to show how appearance becomes a weapon.
Additional Notes
Dressed to kill is a vivid idiom of appearance, glamour, and social impact. The verb kill is figurative, suggesting that beauty, elegance, or style has almost weapon-like power. In poetry, it can support themes of seduction, performance, vanity, class, or self-invention. It suits dramatic monologue and satire particularly well, where clothing becomes armour, disguise, or a deliberate act of domination in the social gaze.
Also Known As
Dressed to the nines
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