We Real Cool

 I think it's interesting how to poem is set up with an introduction (THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.) It reminds me of a play and how sometimes there's a narrator offstage or something introducing the setting. It puts an image in my head of "cool" people hanging around a pool table, smoking cigarettes and drinking. It' so simple but has such a smooth quality to it. You want to say "reeeeeaaal cool" instead of "real cool" in your head.

THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL