A COVID Moment - Jim Schweers

A COVID Moment Jim Schweers

You unwrap a new bar of soap. Nothing unusual, Except that there's nothing where there should be something: a whiff of cheap perfume. You hold it to your nose: NoThing. You think, "It's got me."

Do you feel it, the other, inside you? A buzzing behind your eyes? In your body, a rider? As the wrapper leaves your hand to fall into the waste basket, you glimpse the word: unscented.