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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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Throw good money after bad

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

An idiom warning against continuing to invest resources in a failing venture, suggesting that spending more money on a lost cause only increases losses rather than recovering initial investments.

Detailed Definition
Throw good money after bad means to continue investing resources in a failing cause, plan, relationship, or project after losses have already occurred. In poetry, the idiom can support themes of denial, sunk cost, doomed loyalty, addiction, gambling, or political folly. Its financial logic easily becomes emotional: a speaker may keep giving love, time, or hope because they have already given so much. A poet may use it to explore when persistence becomes wisdom, and when it becomes refusal to face loss.
Example
Example in poetry:
A cautionary poem might warn the gambler not to throw good money after bad; In satire, the council throws good money after bad repairing a useless golden fountain; The phrase means to waste more resources on a failing effort; A poet can use it for folly.
Additional Notes
Throw good money after bad means continue investing resources in a failing venture, making loss worse. In poetry, it can critique sunk-cost thinking, doomed love, war, addiction, business failure, or political stubbornness. The phrase is economic but emotionally rich: people often keep paying because they cannot bear to admit loss. Students should ask what non-monetary resources are being wasted: time, care, hope, pride, or youth.
Also Known As
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