Mask 2

The outbreak came without warning, and it was as if the city had been put on pause.

There were all kinds of symptoms: a throat that felt like swallowing razor blades, a backside that felt like sitting on a durian, a brain that felt like it was being stirred with a slotted spoon, and eyeballs that felt like they were being drilled… And I got the aches, the fever, the eye-poking strain… After the pandemic, my feelings were ultimately misplaced too…