Two Kinds - Prathro Sereno

[Larry Robinson]

Two Kinds


There are two kinds of people in the world;
the ones with washers and dryers and the ones
who unfurl their slips at the laundromat, spread
saris and bed sheets by the river, hang
their checkered boxers on the line.

There are two: those who love Einstein
for his relativity and those who love his hair.
Those who relish words like infrastructure
and problematic, and those who like to ponder
life in the belly of the whale.  For some,
invitations come as night birds; others get
a summons in the mail.  These wander wet and 
lonely; those soft-shoe in rhythm with the rain.

Two kinds: the tragic heroes and the understudies; 
the bootleggers and the cobblers.  Wolf-whisperers
and dogcatchers; shovellers of snow and readers
of the flake.  There are those who run into the room
with a lit match, stopping to wonder what they came for,
and the ones who run in without the match. 

	 - Prater Sereno
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