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The Black Bat: Cantos LXXXIV-XC

A Supernatural Baseball Epic

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May 09, 2026
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The Black Bat: Cantos LXXXIV-XC

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

LXXXIV

The keening spirit clutched her head
With hands that were long wisps of smoke,
Her jaw it dropped, as if a thread
Had somewhere in her being broke.
Then out her mouth there rose a cry
That froze the planets in the sky.
It cowed the crowd, that chilling soun…

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