Tales from the Crucible #5: Infinite Rest
crucible
noun
- a container in which metals
or other substances
may be subjected
to high temperatures;
- a situation of severe trial
or in which different elements
interact,
leading to
the creation
the creation
of summat new.
A great man once declared *
that the Earth is "sausage-shaped".
Now straddling this saveloy,
like two snooker colossi:
John Higgins and Mark Selby.
Moving statues with cues.
No roustabout it,
jousting out here
with their 18oz sticks
in this rarefied atmosphere.
Two days,
four sessions,
a potential thirty five frames
of this
most mental of games.
Who will emerge
from the seething cauldron,
bloodied,
exhausted
but unbeaten?
The 2017 Betfred World Champignon.
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