<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><font class="">Two Kinds</font></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">There are two kinds of people in the world;</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">the ones with washers and dryers and the ones</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">who unfurl their slips at the laundromat, spread</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">saris and bed sheets by the river, hang</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">their checkered boxers on the line.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">There are two: those who love Einstein</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">for his relativity and those who love his hair.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">Those who relish words like <i class="">infrastructure</i></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">and <i class="">problematic</i>, and those who like to ponder</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">life in the belly of the whale. For some,</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">invitations come as night birds; others get</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">a summons in the mail. These wander wet and </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">lonely; those soft-shoe in rhythm with the rain.</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">Two kinds: the tragic heroes and the understudies; </div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">the bootleggers and the cobblers. Wolf-whisperers</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">and dogcatchers; shovellers of snow and readers</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">of the flake. There are those who run into the room</div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">with a lit match, stopping to wonder what they came for,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class="">and the ones who run in without the match. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span> - Prater Sereno</div></body></html>