The grand irony:
what some people do
in the name of youth
makes them look like
Batman's villain,
"The Joker". . .

All in the name of science,
the cedar waxwing, Bombycillidae cedrorum,
gorges on over-ripe berries and stumbles
excitedly out of the hawthorn, too drunk to speak,
while Troglodytes pacificus, the Pacific wren,
trills its report at thirty syllables a second.