RIDDLES OF THE MONTH
Credit: GAMES Magazine
November, 1999
Elisha Anderson

Each of these three poems describes a different familiar item. What are they?

1)
Late afternoons I often bathe.
I'll soak in water piping hot.
My essence goes through see-thru
       clothes.
Used up I am; I've gone to pot.

2)
Treat it like an ice cream cone.
Artwork delivered with bad taste.
An homage. A rough-edged traveler.
Not worth much, but money-based.

3)
The last man on a lush green lawn
Waits for the cue, dressed black as coal.
A man in white comes forth and taps
     him.
The man in black runs - jumps in
     hole.

Answers:

1. Tea bag
2. Postage stamp
3. Eight ball (on a pool table)