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spacecrows · 10 days ago

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(handshakes are so weird who came up with that like. let me hold your hand for the briefest of moments. let us perform the world's shortest choreography together as we are holding on to each other. we just met & now i am touching you. we just met & now you know what my skin feels like)

#we just met & i have to trust that you wash your hands regularly #we just met & now you know i'm scared & sweaty #neither of us really wants to touch the other one but society tells us we have to #you don't think about this at all but i have been dreading this moment for 10 minutes #you held onto my hand for a nanosecond longer than is custom and now it's weird #we will know each other for many years and this might be the only time we ever touch #we will never see each other again but now you have touched me #zoning out at work thinking about handshakes #if you are wondering whether this is confusion at societal conventions or yearning or feelings of otherness or complete & utter disgust #the answer is yes #(also extremely dependent on whose hand i'm shaking)

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