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It’s Hard to Make up Your Mind Sometimes
She implores
I want you
to give me $20.
When I ask
Why? she replies
So I don’t have
to lift it off you.
Fair enough.
She folds the bill
into her pocket
like it’s a receipt
for my insecurity.
Then she grins
and I know
I’ve just bought myself
another day
of being her favorite.
The world is
full of men
with empty pockets
and full heads.
Glide On, Mocha
cheap accutane singapore Moby Dick was never actually named Moby Dick in the story.
In Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, the giant white sperm whale is referred to simply as “the White Whale” or “Moby Dick” by the crew, but that name really comes from Captain Ahab’s obsession with it.
The real-world inspiration was a famous 19th-century albino sperm whale called Mocha Dick, known to sailors for his ferocity. Melville changed the name slightly, but in the book itself, the whale isn’t walking around with “Moby Dick” as an official name; it’s more a label born of Ahab’s vendetta and the crew’s legend-making.
