People Poems · PHOTO-0734

Me, In the Future, As a Mom

2025-12-18 · Plaza Rooftop, Coral Gables

Original typewritten page for Me, In the Future, As a Mom by Chris the Poet

Transcription

I know she's out there, just beyond this little curtain that divides us from the future, that sometimes lets its light in... I can feel her glow, bask in it--me, in the future, as a momeeeit may af well already be so, it may as well already be M@eeeyeaheee She's me Looking back with a smirk about my impatience and frenzy, looking back with an eye roll when I think about how I should have enjoyed the quiet just a little bit more...but not too sore about it, quite the opposite actually...blessed and blessed with the baby and the baby's baby screams for me to feed them or pat the gas out of ‘em amd all that..sethat future's already on its way,. in utero today..esyou're already her, because you'll be her, and once a mother, always a mother...