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The Black Bat: Cantos LXIII-LXIX

A Supernatural Baseball Epic

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May 09, 2026
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The Black Bat: Cantos LXIII-LXIX

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

LXIII

The Blessèd Ball bounced in a loop
And falls among the corpses mixed,
Which then towards the object troop:
Its shinning hide their vision fixed.
And though their bones were stiff and bleached,
They all towards the baseball reached.
The first to touch it fel…

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