here it is

I, the final arbiter

and ultimate enforcer

of such things (appointed by the king!), make official

and binding this: that the eyes shall be gouged out

and replaced by hot coals

in the head, the blockhead,

of each citizen who,

upon reaching his/her majority,

has yet to read

Moby-Dick, by Mr. Herman Melville (1819-1891), American

novelist

and poet.