Whole Numbers

 

The Whole Numbers are

A stand-up crowd. 

Are always dressed appropriately

In clean clothes, they

Drive new SUV’s,

Have the neatest lawns in the suburb,

And the cleanest houses. 

 

They attend regular worship services

And have time to help

The less fortunate:

The fractions, decimals,

The irrational numbers. 

 

Their children are also inevitably

Whole Numbers,

Successfully attending the

Best universities

And sliding easily into

Comfortable positions in

Whole Number lives. 

 

We don’t hate them. 

Truly, they move apart from us

In some rational universe

 Where the laws we contend

With daily simply do not apply. 

How could they?