When I was in the hospital with Covid I watched a news report talking about how people were killing bats because of fears over their spreading the disease. It made me so mad. Whatever the true cause these amazing creatures don't deserve our fear or scorn. I still love them so I wrote this poem as an homage. If you want to help bats here's where you can learn how: https://www.batcon.org/


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