A Footle Whale Tale
Of old
It’s told,
A tale
Of whale
So white
It might
Eclipse
Great ships
And smash
Their masts
And send
Its men
To hell
As well.
Ishmail
Did sail
With mad
Ahab
And crew
Onto
The deep,
To seek
And slay
That whale
So white,
Whose sight
Drove mad
Ahab.
The cost:
All lost
At sea,
But he
Alone,
Sea-blown,
Alive,
Survived
That hell,
To tell
His tale
of whale
And mad
Ahab.
Copyright © Jerome Malenfant | Year Posted 2017
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