A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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 F

Fat–cull

Archaic Terms
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 term for a wealthy or gullible person, often one easily exploited.

Detailed Definition
Fat–cull originated in criminal and cant slang, referring to a rich victim ripe for cheating or theft. In poetry, it appears mainly in satirical or rogue literature to depict urban cunning and moral corruption. Writers used the phrase to comment on greed, deception, and social vulnerability, contrasting outward prosperity with inner foolishness. Its slangy tone lent realism and immediacy to poems concerned with city life and human vice.
Example
Example in poetry:
In rogue poetry, a thief boasts of spying a “fat-cull” ripe for cheating; A satirical poem may say, “The fat-cull swaggers loud, yet knows not he is marked”; In mock-epic verse, “Fortune paints her victims fair, the fattest culls the first to fall”; A moral reflection might note, “Greed makes a fat-cull of us all.”
Additional Notes
Fat–cull originates in criminal slang and highlights how poets borrowed from non-elite registers to depict urban life and moral danger. Its use often implies irony: outward prosperity masking inward foolishness or vulnerability. In poetry, the term can signal predation, greed, or social blindness, especially in satirical or rogue literature. Students should attend to its evaluative stance; the speaker positions themselves as shrewder than the victim. Analysing fat–cull can open discussion about economic anxiety and class tension in early modern verse.
Also Known As
Dupe Gull Mark Easy prey
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