IMMORTAL HYDROZOAN

 

Turritopsis dohrnii

 

Turritopsis dohrnii.

Today it is more commonly known as the immortal jellyfish.

An adult is about the size of a trimmed pinkie fingernail
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?src=me&ref=general
 

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ImPeRiShAbLe

VaSt gELaTiN cOnSciOuSnEsS:

wEe Turritopsis

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“The immortal medusa is the most miraculous species in the entire animal kingdom. I believe it will be easy to solve the mystery of immortality and apply ultimate life to human beings.”

Shin Kubota

Associate professor of Kyoto University
At Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture

 

 

 

 

 

 

HEAVENLY QUESTIONS

Where is Heaven?

Who in the Hell knows.

What color is Heaven?

Is it blue, emerald, or gold?

Is it turquoise, white, or pink?

Does Heaven ever stink?

Who in the Hell knows.

Does it have Internet or TV?

Does it have McDonald’s or KFC?

Does it have pancakes or cheesecake?

Does it have elephants or tadpoles? 

Does it have mirth or sorrow?

Does Heaven have water like Earth?

Where is Heaven?

Who in the Hell knows.

A DITTY ON THE FEATHERED FOWL

 

Although turkeys are very perky

They seldom get made into jerky.

People like to eat white meat,

But the brown meat is quite sweet.

I wonder how an eagle would taste

If it were the one to get the baste

Instead of the plump, feathered fowl?

AwFuL HAIKU

 

ImAgiNaTiOn’S

pHaNtOmS oF sUbLiMiTy

ArE oFtEn OfFaL

 

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1800)

The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power: Or rather he emancipates his eyes From the black shapeless accidents of size-- In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole, His gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.