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Chapter 46: Surmises

Our purpose clear; it has begun,
But for every tool you count beneath the sun,
Only mankind's opposition,
From his fickle disposition,
Needs a careful kind of maintenance on the way.

We'll fight lick for lick,
We'll kill Moby Dick,
But we're gonna pick old Neptune's pockets
All along the way!
Our pious delight
Too far from our sight,
So we'll think about the money for today.

And not the least on Ahab's mind
Is the joy he reaps from killing Moby's kind.
Though he has a wife in token,
He is married to the ocean,
And he skips upon the waves of blood he laid.

We'll fight lick for lick,
We'll kill Moby Dick,
But we're gonna pick old Neptune's pockets
All along the way!
Our pious delight
Too far from our sight,
So we'll think about the money for today.

Our purpose clear, off in the distance
Swims a holy fish we seek with great insistence,
But that's many months in coming,
So for now the ship is running
Off the fuel of material desire.

We'll fight lick for lick,
We'll kill Moby Dick,
But we're gonna pick old Neptune's pockets
All along the way!
Our pious delight
Too far from our sight,
So we'll think about the money for today.

(c) and (p) 2009 Patrick Shea

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from Call Me Ishmael; volume 6, released November 6, 2011

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Patrick Shea Brooklyn, New York

Patrick is a nerd, a book lover, a math afficianado, an Ishmael, and an Ahab. He lives in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. He grew up in Portland, OR; and has also lived in Grinnell, IA (for college); and Austin, TX.

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