The Pequod Meets The Virgin In Moby-Dick Poem by Dennis Ryan

Monday afternoon, April 1,2019 at 2: 46 p.m.

"The predestined day arrived, and we duly met the ship Jungfrau, Derick De Deer, master, of Bremen."
- Ishmael, common sailor, narrates the meeting of the Pequod and Jungfrau in Chapter LXXXI of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

In Moby-Dick, the crew of the Pequod
tortures and murders an old bull whale
for the oil which light the lamps of bridals
and solemn churches across America
which preach love for one's fellow man,
but not for mammals, including whales.