The End of Pym, a Tennos
Perhaps in his delirium, he called out Reynolds' name,
one source of Arthur Gordon Pym's masonic claim to fame,
succumbing as did Nu-Nu, when he saw the giant shape,
a huge, white, shrouded figure, rising o'er his wind-swept cape.
He lay back on the brown pirogue, like Hamlet at the end,
his feet extended out in air, beginning to descend.
And there upon the far horizon, dipping in the sea,
where Moby-Dick and Ahab's corpse fell through eternity,
he tried to hold to Beauty's form, ideal and perverse,
unleashed in quiche, the biche-de-mer, and rounded with a curse.
Perhaps in his delirium, he called out Reynolds' name,
one source of Arthur Gordon Pym's masonic claim to fame,
succumbing as did Nu-Nu, when he saw the giant shape,
a huge, white, shrouded figure, rising o'er his wind-swept cape.
He lay back on the brown pirogue, like Hamlet at the end,
his feet extended out in air, beginning to descend.
And there upon the far horizon, dipping in the sea,
where Moby-Dick and Ahab's corpse fell through eternity,
he tried to hold to Beauty's form, ideal and perverse,
unleashed in quiche, the biche-de-mer, and rounded with a curse.
