My favorite things

words by Kevin Krisciunas, 1990

Faint fuzzy quasars
And matter that's hidden.
Pulsars and blazars
And research I've written.
Brown dwarfs and white dwarfs
And strange cosmic strings.
These are a few of my favorite things.

False-color pictures of nebular places.
Faraway realms having poisonous traces.
Emission-line spectra with flux in their wings.
These are a few of my favorite things.

Galaxies streaming with very large redshifts.
Mountains with domes there, not buried in snow drifts.
Four-wheel vehicles bouncing on springs.
These are a few of my favorite things.

When the frost bites,
When the moon's bright,
When the seeing's bad,
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so sad.