The Moon and I Once the sun has dropped to dine A rock in the sky starts to shine And I return the smile For it is the moon, an old chum of mine. And we gaze at each other Playing different parts every instant Once a mistress, once a brother And then a monster or then a mother. An untold affection holds us Awaiting the others varied form: I'm sometimes pensive, sometimes glum Sometimes ebullient, sometimes numb. The moon is so expressive in turn A crescent of silver, a golden urn Pleasant laughter, a precocious smile Angry rubour or sulking black denial Or sweetly a BIG lump of sugar, Flying high, in style. Suddenly then I'm gripped by jealousy Crying that promiscuity is heresy! And the Moon flirts all the time With poets and novelists And Werewolves... and just wolves And serial killers and tides. And then I summon my senses Reminding me I'm human. Humans had best be my friends And not the Moon's terrain, Or I'll surely turn insane. Yet, I'll never let this mat...
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Witches of Yore: Biologists and Medics today There were witches then, who used bat ears pickled for thirteen days in lizard blood with armadillo's nails and Lion's ear wax, stirred nine times on full moon days with the left hand to the right hand side and on new moon days, six times with the right hand to the left hand side to create a cockroach with dragon's wings, bad breath and (reference unavailable). We now have biologists growing human stem cell lines that lie submerged in fetal bovine serum over mouse embryonic fibroblasts, infected with virus (grown in cancer cells, again feeding on cow blood extract) that has in it genes from a fluorescent seaweed (put there with the help of the juice of bacteria that were grown on ferment and rotting meat, and molecular scissors from Escsherichia coli), injected into an embryonic mouse's brain to create a mouse with 10% human brains!(Muotri et al 2005) Come to think of it, the way genetic material is being cut, pasted and str...