An Ode to Holding Hands

Embrace the sweating and the intimacy.

I don’t know why but sometimes holding hands
feels like it’s maybe more intimate than sex or
sleeping together — like to the point my friends and me,
in college, had an agreement that if we saw one dude holding
hands with someone who wasn’t officially his significant other
we could slap him right in the face, without any kind of warning,
though I’m unsure to…