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
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>
>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
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>>>> 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
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>>> 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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