Married Couples

Aki from Japan believes in intuition 
and views the world through his sense of knowing 
recognizing couples who belong together 
synchronized in speech pattern and movements 
often finishing each other’s sentences 
laughing at the same jokes and bantering 
from too many hours in close proximity.  

I tested him on his knowledge at an open cafe 
we looked out on to the street and he guessed 
which people had been together for awhile.  
He could tell which old people were newlyweds 
and which ones had been together for several years.

We started up conversations and asked questions 
to verify the truth to his observations and he was right 
all of the time. I asked him what clued him to the answer

and he said, “The longer they have been together,  
the more they look like brother and sister.  
Even though they might be a different ethnicity  
they still look like they're related to each other."