Melissa is hosting Poetics in the dVerse Poets Pub ~ our challenge, to write poems about "sharks"
Unsplash ~ Susan Holt Simpson
A pool shark named Fats
[quite rotund]
claimed every last shot he had won
with a wink and a grin
he'd con them right in
then beat them while bragging for fun
he'd swagger and spin quite a tale
with charm that could flatten a whale
"no practice" he'd scoff
then knock the balls off
while sipping a Coke and an ale
* Minnesota Fats, aka as New York Fats, Broadway Fats and Chicago Fats was born Rudolph Wanderon, Jr. The 1961 film "The Hustler" featured both Fats, played by Jackie Gleason and Fast Eddie Felson, played by Paul Newman