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]> 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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