# Route 29 Batman (a poem)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/route-29-batman-a-poem/729024>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/route-29-batman-a-poem/729024 "2015-08-27T04:29:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/route-29-batman-a-poem/729024/1 "2015-08-27T04:29:50Z")

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**Route 29 Batman**

Batman is dead  
The newsfeeds say.  
Leonard Robinson, 51,  
liked to don the cape  
and drive his custom Batmobile  
visiting sick children in the hospital.

Struck down in darkness,  
they say,  
by the side of the road. No supervillain,  
no deathtrap, no last-moment save,  
just ordinary bad luck.  
He made a lot of children smile  
and not a few adults.  
The children will miss him,  
but they will be all right. Well, some of them will;  
it is a hospital, after all,  
and we are told we must face realities.

Late at night,  
when the shadows gather,  
I sneak outside.  
Watching for movement,  
I go to the highest point  
and shine the signal on the clouds  
hour after hour.  
No one comes.

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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/route-29-batman-a-poem/729024/2 "2015-08-27T04:32:31Z")

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