A Thing

The mole on the left side of my face had grown much larger during the pandemic. I tried to ignore it — thinking that eventually it would go away. I avoided looking directly into mirrors — the one in the bathroom and the full-length in my bedroom. One day while I was on an important phone call with a client, in my periphery I clearly saw the mole reach over and turn off my phone. “What the hell”, I yelled to no one. Not believing what I had seen, I called the client back. The mole did it again and this time I heard it say, “No!” Somehow, some way — it had become a thing and developed a personality.