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A glossy fashion mag boasts ‘300 Flirty

Looks for the New Year,’ which can only mean

we’re subjected to a year with sixty-five

or sixty-six unflirty days. Unacceptable!

Melville, apparently, just kept at it.

The sea, the skiffs, the scrimshaw and scrivening.

A note in a galley of The Whale reads:

‘Ponce de Leotard: First Person Round the Panty.’

I’m saying I like the idea of sitting down

without really needing to get up again.

I’m saying I had no idea what flirt.com was —

Nina, I was in my professor clothes!

My grey sweater and blue shirt combo

will soon be featured in the slick pages

of Grey Sweater and Blue Shirt Combo

Magazine. Name, as always, misspelled.