The Black Bat: Cantos XXVI-XXXI

A Supernatural Baseball Epic

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The Black Bat: Cantos XXVI-XXXI

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

XXVI

The Cranes replaced their pitcher lost
(At peace he lay beneath the ground).
A man they hired at half the cost,
And would not say where he’d been found.
He had no home, no friend, no kin—
Perhaps he sort of drifted in.
A college prospect he might be,
Who spen…