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No pool balls colliding, no ping pong balls bouncing.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
No pool balls colliding, no ping pong balls bouncing.
Everything in these three short lines is defined by what isn't there. We're told there are no pool balls colliding and no ping pong balls bouncing, so the poem is built entirely from absence. Both sounds belong to places where people gather to play: a game room, a basement, a bar.
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