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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 P

Put The Record Straight

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

To correct a false impression or set the facts right; in poetry, it's a speech act where a speaker clarifies the truth, often in response to reputation damage.

Detailed Definition
The phrase imagines truth as a recording that has been played incorrectly and must be reset. In poetry, a speaker may address history, a family rumor, or a false account of love. The act of setting the record straight can sound authoritative, yet poems often reveal that every record has a viewpoint, and correction may uncover another layer of uncertainty.
Example
Example in poetry:
The final stanza puts the record straight by correcting the rumor repeated in the opening lines; The witness poem puts the record straight about who endured the war; Before revising the elegy, the speaker puts the record straight and names the missing person; A poem can put the record straight while still using metaphor rather than plain historical reporting.
Additional Notes
“Put the record straight” means correcting false information or a misleading impression. It is often used when someone wants to clarify events publicly or defend the truth. Related expressions include “set the record straight” and “clear up a misunderstanding.”
Also Known As
Set The Record Straight Put The Record Right
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