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Bats without balls
\noften cling to walls.
\nThey can hear a pitch resound.
\nThat’s why they hang upside down.
\nThey can sense the stitches turn
\nin their radar fueled nocturne.
\nBats, not balls, are taking flight
\nin the diamond moonlit night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bats without balls often cling to walls. They can hear a pitch resound. That’s why they hang upside down. They can sense the stitches turn in their radar fueled nocturne. Bats, not balls, are taking … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2","tag-poem","tag-poetry-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":402,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=402","url_meta":{"origin":494,"position":0},"title":"Baseball Birthdays: April thirtieth","author":"Rick Young","date":"April 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Babe\" Danzig played six games for Red Sox in nineteen-oh-nine. 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