Impact \u2013 cue ball
smacks against solid green \u2013
drops it in the hole,
backspins toward the waiting yellow.
What\u2019s not to love? <\/p>
\n\n\n\n
Chalking the tip of the stick,
gripping it tight but tender,
lined up on the rail:
eye, colors, the abyss.
When is vision ever as unclogged?
The point so obvious? <\/p>
\n\n\n\n
The bartender, the drinkers,
are oblivious.\u00a0
Conversations, smoke,\u00a0\u00a0
laughter, jukebox music,\u00a0
have nothing to do\u00a0
with my mastery of geometry.<\/p>
\n\n\n\n
But I\u2019m on a roll.
The balls are falling.
On a bounded table,
slabs of slate
clothed in felt,
there is none can beat me this night.
Who\u2019s not to adore? <\/p>
\n\n\n\n
A self-portrait? <\/p>
\n\n\n\n
No, a soliloquy
where the protagonist stands alone,
scrutinizes the nature of the world,
comes to terms
with his own place in it. <\/p>
\n\n\n\n
In this case,
pool stick in hand,
balls racked and ready,
waving a sawbuck
at any fool enough to play me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by John Grey Impact \u2013 cue ball smacks against solid green \u2013 drops it in the hole, backspins toward the waiting yellow. What\u2019s not to love? Chalking the tip of the stick, gripping it tight but tender,lined up on the rail: eye, colors, the abyss. When is vision ever as unclogged? The point so obvious? The bartender, the drinkers,are oblivious.\u00a0Conversations, smoke,\u00a0\u00a0laughter, jukebox music,\u00a0have Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/15-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}