two men on the emx, commerce

Eugene OR

Description

His knees tucked in, legs slightly spread, video game light reflects in his glasses, obscuring his smiling like the lucky—though lesser—of the gay archetypes: deceptively young-looking yet criminally overaged, that smile as though holding a torch for the youth we're beaten out of. His childlike, grinning, ignorant serendipity juxtaposed by you—though greater: your bare, marked face reflecting precocious light proudly, knowingly observing it you so elegantly mature— perhaps, too, criminally overaged— and radiantly wise through your clear appreciation If you are his lover, I envy him. If you are his father, I envy him.