Love

Setting: A crowded departure concourse for a broken, underfunded train system in an improving, but problematic city train station. The subject: A mother.

10 minute delay.

Sitting in the living room

Watching the evening news,

Which you made me do,

Because it's “stimulating”

I wait until you called out

“Dinner!”

Lying on plush couches,

Scrolling mindlessly on TikTok,

Then David Muir says something.

“The Supreme Court is destroying democracy.”