cheers John think it can be open to many interpretations yours most valued
if there are endless red ball you never get to a coloured one and if the
white one has gone walk about go home !
On 04/01/2018 10:49, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> As it is the snooker table of life it seems to me that life is going
> badly, perhaps the effects of old age. The cue represents the ability
> to play, the table is not a level playing field and the lack of pink
> and black would indicate that there is not much left to aim for.
> And you can shoot that down in flames if you wish Patrick. See you
> Monday.
>
> John
>
>> ----Original Message----
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: 04/01/2018 9:37
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subj: Re: patsnap
> 770a****************************************************
>> Hi Bill thanks for your thoughtful obs -for me it was just a
> nightmare
>> snooker game too many or too little of anything wrecks the game
>>
>> I did not mean picking up the colours in life -perhaps another poem
> cheers
>>
>> On 03/01/2018 21:36, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> Plain text here too, Patrick, if not plain meaning to this
> scribbler. Not
>>> sure about the colour breakup. Blues present would be a curse but
> why would
>>> lack of browns or blacks? Lots of reds (being in the red?) I thought
> at one
>>> stage it was meant to be lots of low rated scores but missing the
>>> high-scoring pinks and blacks. But then blues are worth more than
> browns.
>>> Sing out if I am wide of the mark.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 at 2:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]
> ca> wrote:
>>>> It was plain, but no numbers at my end, P.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect most of us here (now) can feel for this, even if we dont
> really
>>>> know much about snooker…
>>>>
>>>> D
>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 3, 2018, at 2:47 AM, Patrick McManus <
>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>> oops should be plain text sorry and numbered!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>>> Subject: patsnap
>>>> ****************************************************
>>>>> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 09:42:54 +0000
>>>>> From: Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> To: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *SNOOKERED*
>>>>>
>>>>> on his
>>>>>
>>>>> snooker table
>>>>>
>>>>> his snooker
>>>>>
>>>>> table of life
>>>>>
>>>>> there seemed
>>>>>
>>>>> to be a
>>>>>
>>>>> multitude
>>>>>
>>>>> of red balls
>>>>>
>>>>> also numerous
>>>>>
>>>>> yellow
>>>>>
>>>>> blues
>>>>>
>>>>> and greens
>>>>>
>>>>> and then a
>>>>>
>>>>> complete lack of
>>>>>
>>>>> browns
>>>>>
>>>>> pinks
>>>>>
>>>>> and blacks
>>>>>
>>>>> this apart from
>>>>>
>>>>> the cue white
>>>>>
>>>>> often absent
>>>>>
>>>>> and as for
>>>>>
>>>>> the bent cue!
>>>>>
>>>>> missing tip!
>>>>>
>>>>> and don’t
>>>>>
>>>>> mention
>>>>>
>>>>> the state
>>>>>
>>>>> of that ghastly
>>>>>
>>>>> nightmare
>>>>>
>>>>> table!
>>>>>
>>>>> /pmcmanus/
>>>>>
>>>>> /s240/
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations
>>>> 2 (UofAPress).
>>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Swept snow, Li Po,
>>>> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
>>>> to the road that hies to office
>>>> away from home.
>>>>
>>>> Lorine Niedecker
>>>>
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