Of Friends and Friendliness

I would like to meet my inverse

Brother, reverse doppelgänger,

A young man bad at friendliness

But very good at making friends.

Then, I would like to “proceed west,”

Like Michael Palmer, not ”from death

To friendliness, the two topics

On which you are allowed,” he wrote,

“To meditate,” but from death’s friends

To my young fetch’s friendliness,

Which I would improve by greeting

Him thus—Hi, how are you doing?

And if he refused to answer

Well and idiomatically,

I would then try to wait and see

If he would still be friends with me.