Two Men
by Jennifer Hayashida

The friendship between two men consists of sports coats:  both wear tweed, and in their embrace, each tweed jacket rides up to reveal empty belt loops.  The translator wears a pale blue shirt with one button casually undone at the base of his throat.  The poet wears a shirt with a fraying collar and a bold pattern of teal and yellow foliage.  Over the shirt he wears an electric blue vest that buttons in the front.  But when wearing their sports coats, the two men seem to say, “We are the same.”

Other poems by Jennifer Hayashida in ActionYes #3:
Kafka's Diaries: 1919
Variations on a Sentence from Proust