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[17] APPETITE Mexican Free-tailed Bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) When the Mexican free-tailed bats fly out from underneath the Congress Avenue Bridge in Texas, do they hum the chant of I want, I want as they cut a swath above the capitol, above the Gaps and Victoria’s Secrets now shut for the night at the open air malls? Exiting the Bracken Caves in search of migrating cotton bollworm moths and mosquitoes, they’ll eat two hundred times their weight in insects before returning to their roosts. If only I could feed my hungers in the way they do, and starve my leathered sorrows clustering in their caves. So grey and woolly, they unfurl like a knitted scarf at dusk, their million eyes like rhinestones glittering against the cross-hatched sky. ...

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