Man Hands

  You can tell so much about a man from just his hands.

          If they are rugged and bruised up, you know he works hard, probably with wood or metal or electricity.

          If they are clean and tidy, you know he’s a guy who prefers to take an intellectual path rather than a physical one.

          If they are big hands, you know he gets a lot of judgments about what’s in his pants.

          And if they are tiny, you know he gets questioned a lot about what’s in his pants.

          If they are used to play sports, you know he is competitive and you’ll never quite be his first priority.

          If they are used to play an instrument, you know he is arrogant and will never be sober enough to actually consider you a part of his life.

           If you couldn’t pick his hands out of a crowd of people, you haven’t cared enough to engrave them, or him, in your head.

          If there is something distinctive about his hands- a scar, a tattoo, a memory- it will be damn near impossible to remove him from your head.

          If he holds your hand and you immediately want to drop it, you probably should.

          And if he holds your hand and whether they are too small, too big, too rugged, too clean, too dirty, too generic or too personal, yours still melts inside his palm, you probably should never let go.