About taking off pants by Gerrit Krol

About taking off pants Broadly speaking there are two kinds of pants (a) your own pants, (b) the pants of another. Taking off one's own pants one can have the advantage of being alone. Taking off the pants of another however, one must be with at least two. In that case one can also take off each other's pants (dualism). An important factor is the gender of the participants. If they belong to a different gender they can exchange each other's pants since every gender has its own pants. So although usually the gender is recognizable by the pants it is also recognizable without pants. One continues nevertheless, with or without pants, to belong to the same gender. Normally speaking there are two genders, the male and the female, of which the representatives are recognizable because, once without pants, the male goes into the female. One then says that they fuse with one another. This fusing is temporary. Afterwards the pants are put on again. Fusing with each other, even when one is of a different gender, with pants on is not possible. (Original title: 'Over het uittrekken van een broek' - From the anthology 'De Nederlandse poëzie van de 19de en 20ste eeuw in 1000 en enige gedichten' by Gerrit Komrij, 1983 - Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Amsterdam)

Gerrit Krol [1934-2013]