A bird was caught inside a trap <br />which closed its claws with a loud snap. <br />The snap was heard by Fritz the cat <br />who had been stalking a young bat. <br /> <br />The bat was hanging from a tree <br />had wrapped around a twig his knee. <br />'AHA', the cat now saw the bird <br />it was a finch, and it occurred <br /> <br />to Fritz the cat that here was food <br />enough to lift a feline's mood. <br />He'd eat the bird right in the trap <br />and afterward take a short nap. <br /> <br />The finch had lifted up his wing <br />and, full of love, began to sing. <br />He figured if this day meant death <br />he'd entertain with his last breath. <br /> <br />The cat was just about to eat <br />when that sweet voice, now in defeat, <br />sang, in e-flat the Lorelei <br />and Fritz the cat began to cry. <br /> <br />And if you know a thing or two <br />perhaps from visits to the Zoo: <br />A cat can either eat or cry, <br />not both. And trapped birds cannot fly. <br /> <br />The bat, who had observed the drama <br />in upside-down-like panorama, <br />approached because this tearful issue <br />required help and Kleenex tissue. <br /> <br />The closest thing to tissue though <br />is bat-wing skin and if you blow <br />across the tears toward the wing <br />a bat will likely start to sing. <br /> <br />And, right away, that's what transpired, <br />the bat sang loudly. And inspired <br />the cat to see him as a meal, <br />complete with musical appeal. <br /> <br />The bat soon sang of Mother Goose, <br />predictably, tied his own noose. <br />Was eaten by the hungry cat, <br />it's Nature's way when cat eats bat. <br /> <br />When Fritzie got up from his nap <br />he let the finch out of the trap. <br />The finch who saw a hungry eye <br />began to sing the Lorelei.<br /><br />Herbert Nehrlich<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-singing-bat/
