Le pipistrelle
This moth keeps flying past the light bulb and it looks like the shadow of a bat! A bat in my room! No such luck. I get scared I'll never see another bat! I want to see bats! One time I wrote a poem about bats:
Le pipistrelle
mangiano le zanzare
sopra il fiume
You can tell when I wrote that because I can't speak Italian no more. I wrote it on the riverwalk by the Arno in Firenze in 1997, over twenty years ago! I am writing this from the future.
The bats
eat the mosquitoes
over the river
"Zanzare" is not a word you learn in Italian class. That's a word that only becomes relevant in actual practice. Trying to explain to a store clerk you need bug spray without the word zanzare available is an amusing pantomime.
Maybe one of the zoos has bats. Once we had a bat trapped in our dorm in college. It was an all girls dorm, imagine the shrieks. Once we had a bat trapped in our apartment on 25th. It was just me and Michael Ritchie, imagine the shrieks.
How come none of you ever invite me to Austin during the bat times?
Le pipistrelle
mangiano le zanzare
sopra il fiume
You can tell when I wrote that because I can't speak Italian no more. I wrote it on the riverwalk by the Arno in Firenze in 1997, over twenty years ago! I am writing this from the future.
The bats
eat the mosquitoes
over the river
"Zanzare" is not a word you learn in Italian class. That's a word that only becomes relevant in actual practice. Trying to explain to a store clerk you need bug spray without the word zanzare available is an amusing pantomime.
Maybe one of the zoos has bats. Once we had a bat trapped in our dorm in college. It was an all girls dorm, imagine the shrieks. Once we had a bat trapped in our apartment on 25th. It was just me and Michael Ritchie, imagine the shrieks.
How come none of you ever invite me to Austin during the bat times?