Over the past couple of weeks I've gone a bit batty over trying to write a poem with bats as the primary focus. I've been wrestling with which angle I should approach this piece. At first, I wanted to focus on how bats are from God and mosquitos are from hell. (It's a joke, of course, I don't really believe that, but my inner-loathing for mosquitos does.) Anyhow, the following is my attempt to get at the point, but it never got there. But, it does somewhat explain to you how this whole bat obsession started:
I like this one!
The latest Radiolab podcast is bat themed (among other things)—Rodney v. Death. I thought it was a great story.