Sure enough, while eating lunch and listening to the classical music station, WRTI FM, I was killing ants.
My late friend Elaine Restifo wrote a poem called THE ANT MURDERER.
Here is what I am writing now:
YOU FOUR FOOT NINE
BULLY, finger-sweeping the happy ants
down the drain. You have seen of course
the way they tell their neighbors, a quick
touch and they are done. Ultimately
we must choose. Shall I meet them in
Heaven, if there is such a place, and they
will toss me out, on one of Jupiter's moons.
There are 80 known moons of Jupiter, not counting a number of moonlets likely shed from the inner moons. All together, they form a satellite system which is called the Jovian system. The most massive of the moons are the four Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, which were independently discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun. Much more recently, beginning in 1892, dozens of far smaller Jovian moons have been detected and have received the names of lovers (or other sexual partners) or daughters of the Roman god Jupiter or his Greek equivalent Zeus. The Galilean moons are by far the largest and most massive objects to orbit Jupiter, with the remaining 76 known moons and the rings together composing just 0.003% of the total orbiting mass.
Of Jupiter's moons, eight are regular satellites with prograde and nearly circular orbits that are not greatly inclined with respect to Jupiter's equatorial plane. The Galilean satellites are nearly spherical in shape due to their planetary mass, and so would be considered at least dwarf planets if they were in direct orbit around the Sun. The other four regular satellites are much smaller and closer to Jupiter; these serve as sources of the dust that makes up Jupiter's rings. The remainder of Jupiter's moons are irregular satellites whose prograde and retrograde orbits are much farther from Jupiter and have high inclinations and eccentricities. These moons were probably captured by Jupiter from solar orbits. Twenty-three of the irregular satellites have not yet been officially named.
WELL, GET WITH IT !
Give them names.
I actually attended a baby naming ceremony long ago and far away. Was it at PLB's?
AND LISTEN TO THIS
When I look out the window, PUFFS are all over.
Dandelion puffs flying free as the wind.
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED PIPER LAURIE as I thought she was/is a great actress.
She is part Jewish. Was great in HUD with Paul Newman. She is now being intereviewed by Fred Karger on Turner Classic Films.
DO watch these films before it is too late.
Piper Laurie
American actress
Piper Laurie is an American actress. As of 2022, her acting career has spanned over 70 years. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Wikipedia
- January 22, 1932 (age 90), Detroit, Michigan, United States
- 5'5" (1.64m)
- Joe Morgenstern (m 1962 - 1982)
- Anne Grace Morgenstern
- Charlotte Sadie, Alfred Jacobs
