ishmael and queequeg and ahab and pip

Happy 170th birthday to the greatest American novel ever written, Moby Dick. Here’s a little poem I wrote for some reason.

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ishmael and queequeg and ahab and pip
went down to the sea(to board a ship)

and ishmael befriended a giant harpooner
who turned out to be a non-amorous spooner;

and queequeg discovered he’s destined to die
but his coffin ends up keeping ishmael dry;

and ahab was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

pip came home with a vision of god
and therefore his shipmates called him mad.

for whatever we lose(like a leg past the knee)

it’s actually god that we hunt in the sea

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