Kati Fuchs
Your mom
Goes to bed
Probably
Before 12
A.M.
Today
One minute ago
At 11:03
A.M.
I wondered
What does
A.M.
Stand for?
I crossed my room
Swiftly stepping over my vacuum,
Until I found myself
Staring at myself
In the mirror
Talking to myself
Saying,
“It stands for
After Mom”
And I laughed
At myself
With myself
Looking in the eyes
Of myself
In the mirror.
But seriously,
That would make sense.
Moms go to bed early
They are drained.
So most likely
Barely any moms
Are up past
12 After.Mom.
Only
Strange
Things happen
In the hours of the After Mom.
In a relationship
They say
Nothing good ever happens
After 10 P.M.
Which bleeds into
The After Mom.
Assignments are always due
Before the After Mom
Before 12 After.Mom.
Because if
Your mom
Knew about your procrastination
Oh buddy
Get ready.
Less light is seen
Less energy on the streets
Less rational thinking
In the hours of the After Mom.
The world shuts down
In the hours of the After Mom.
Who else has that sort of control
On a world so resistant to good things
In a world desiring to be so radically unbound
And yet
We fall victim again
To the magic of “Mom”