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.

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


1989

Event dated 1986–1995

Economy

The Savings and Loan Crisis Explodes

What happened

The Savings and Loan Crisis of 1989 was marked by the widespread failure of over a thousand savings and loan associations in the United States due to high-risk real estate lending and deregulation. This crisis cost taxpayers billions and led to significant reforms in the banking industry. It underscored the importance of regulatory oversight in maintaining financial stability.

Literary impact

The Savings and Loan crisis that exploded in 1989 informed a wave of cynical postmodern American poetry. Poets like David Foster Wallace and Frank O'Hara captured the sterile landscapes of suburban real estate, exploring the emptiness of speculative architecture in their critiques of contemporary life.

Source: Wikipedia

Poets alive in 1989

3 poets

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