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In which Rosianna tries something new and writes an original song/rap/book review/recommendation/who knows.

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READ MOBY DICK THOUGH SRSLY: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553213119

so there was this book i had to read for class
it was pretty long, I read it once, I read it fast
I was a keen thirteen but it went over my head
read it this time and thought critically instead

when people saw what I was reading, they got pretty pissed
and yelled "you're reading moby dick, I f-ing hate that shit

so i asked them if they'd read it and they said
NO WAY
I just sparksnoted it and thought that it was lame

I said pot calling kettle, your insults have a limp
read up on some shakespeare, you foul defaced shrimp
once you've done so, read moby dick a-gaiiiin
the bard's on every page, even hamlet the dane

when that whale head is hanging above the pequod ship
and ishmael is talking , hello alas poor yorick?
don't - get me started on paradise lost
melville ref milton like a bowser boss

oh good morning fair is foul and foul is fair
worse to serve in heaven than reign in satan's lair
after the storm east is west and west is east
HM even refs leviathan, a biblical beast

this book talks about dragons it has cannibals
all about sea adventures and that's not all
sperm whale anatomy -- how could you resist!
if you still say you hate it, feel free to meet my fist
now a brief interlude with our fictional friends
who'll let you how moby dick ends
please don't pull a river song and say SPOILERS
if you give me that crap I'll put your face in a boiler

B: NOT ON THE BOAT I AM THE BOAT
W: F YOU, I AM THE WHALE
B: I'M ON ZACK AND CODY
W: I EMBODY TWITTER FAIL
B: I HAVE CAPTAIN AHAB, A ONE LEGGED CRAZY DUDE
W: WHO I DRAG DOWN WHEN I DIE - he's TASTY SHARK FOOD. MIGHT I ALSO REMIND YOU THAT YOU'RE DRAGGED DOWN TOO?
B: BY THE VORTEX I CREATED
W: BUT YOU PULLED DOWN YOUR CREW!
B: WHO CARES! JACK SPARROW RODE ME
W: DON'T YOU KNOW I'M TEAM NINJA
B: You're no ninja turtle, YOU'RE TEAM MUTANT, YOU MINGER

Hey hey hey back off moby dick
alright I know his name is slang for man bits
But I just spent six hundred pages reading about whaling
And if you watch the cove you know it's not plain sailing
not surprised moby bit off ahab's leg (twice)
That captain doesn't know how to be nice
He's too busy with mad pip and at night soliloquising
Just like me in my dorm room when I'm sposed to be revising

I'm not gonna pretend that this book isn't heavy
literally and metaphorically, and urbanely -- you geddit?
There's so much to Melville's sea epic
That you'd be missing out if you've only read it
On sparknotes or wikipedia or not even bothered
And don't even think this video has you covered
I didn't mention whiteness, or jonah, or god
There's so much to be said about the pequod
But to go into that? We don't have time mes belles
So start with these words, Call me Ishmael.