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Menu
Even from the masthead
The lookout can hear
Queequeg and three of the crew,
Usual sorts, shirtless,
Laughing and joking,
Sharing Queequeg's pipe,
Sharing body art,
Some of which come by natural like,
Acquired in scrapes with creatures of the sea.
Ishmael standing nearby, smiling,
As the one with a wide grin,
And a missing front tooth, relates a tale.
"I thought you'd all been eaten."
Ishmael says.
"Mermaids rescued us, Chief!
Now we're on Queequeg's menu!"
Queequeg smiles--pearlescent teeth.
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Notes: Menu...reference the movie, Moby Dick, Q's smile...the masthead...reference the movie 'Jaws', the Indianapolis scene, and the Sharing scars scene (all one scene, but separated youtubes...)...don't know, but I like very much the notion of 'mermaid rescue'!...update: regarding 'filed teeth'...Queequeg didn't have 'filed teeth' (kept for the pun)...thought maybe it was a cannibal thing...but doesn't seem so...it is a 'thing', part of body modification art, and in checking, happened on story of Ota Benga...an aside, and very sad tale...:(....update update: 'pearlescent teeth'...much better, and kept the notion of 'filed' pun with the overlap notions of the Decks pearlescing!...ral...a fine drift too!...
:)
DavidDavid
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