Dus — Is Neis ((full))

There’s a world that rushes, that demands we name things precisely: this is adequate, this is acceptable, this is nice. But dus is neis —that belongs to the in-between. To the crack in the sidewalk where a dandelion pushes through. To the elderly couple on the bench, sharing a single pastry, their shoulders touching like parentheses around a secret. To the child who traces patterns in fogged-up glass, inventing constellations no astronomer will ever catalogue.

Dus is neis.

And maybe that’s the point. That niceness, real niceness, doesn’t announce itself with fanfare. It arrives sideways, misspelled, slightly off-rhythm. It asks nothing of you except to be noticed. So you stand there, in the fading light, and you say it again, softer this time, to no one and to everyone: dus is neis

Dus is neis.