Wanting is—what?

(A Billiard Mystery. From the new volume “Jomilleria.”)

Wanting is—what?

Scoring addition,

Getting position,

Here on the spot?

Seamy his clothes, yet a crack at the game.

—Marker he knows, and addresses by name:

What of the sharper, what of his power?

Gloomily glowering with nought to devour!