Call me Ishmael

A Nautical Micro-Epic By Phil McKraken

Call me Ishmael
Call a Fish Whale

Calm me, calm seas
comme ça, Comme ci

Call me: on the line
Call me-any-any-time

Call me baby
Call me maybe 

Column A and Column B
Call em, see em verily 

Don’t call em to be ironic 
Or call Corinthian ionic 

Our Colony is feeling free 
Raise your foghorn to the sea 

Call on me: probably 
Call on me: inevitably 

Call me old-fashioned 
Call for rum rations!

Call me lucky, pick a winner 
Don’t you call me late for dinner 

Lighthouse shine & call me back in
Foist harpoons and fill the kraken

Call a mermaid, make a wish 
Now your tackle smells of fish 

Cast your swine before your pearls
Swirling seabed kelpy girls 

A Call to arms, embrace your lovers 
Nereid nuptials make good mothers

Call of the wild, call collect 
Catch a Sea Witch, internet 

Figureheads will bless your ships
Cast ashore to call it quits 

Salty margs and saline wifeys
Rings and lines will save your lifeys

Call me Jonah, call me Ahab
Last call — Dagons got me Tab

The whirlpool where I belong 
Call me home with Sirens song