Sobriquets for Moby Dick

Pangloss
Other Doors
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1 min readNov 27, 2019

Don’t call him, Ishmael.

Let’s call him, Ish.

Change Melville

To say… Fish.

Moby Dick,

Big D.

The prick

Of the sea.

Now Ahab,

He’s a Dick.

Dick and Ish

Hunt for Big D.

Queequeg can fish,

AKA Quee,

Smells queefish

To a degree.

Dick, Ish, and Quee

Fish for Big D.

Everyone dies

Except Ish.

Big D by Fish.

Revised for pleasure.

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