Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are

14 kinds of people

1. those mistaken for bigfoot
2. those who are asleep
3. government workers
4. nameless ones
5. those who exist only in dreams
6. women with cats
7. seafaring ones
8. those who are crying that cannot be consoled
9. actors
10. dead ancestors
11. babies
12. others
13. cyborgs, or drivers of cars
14. those that are already driven to madness

Tags: Jorge Luis Borges
Categories: Poetry