Time Travel

An unimportant part of the world,
On an ordinary, homely day,
Can you want to be a part of this?

It’s never been an exotic place,
Not decades ago, not yesterday.
It’s a town. People get errands done.

Nothing great or terrible of note
Beyond the initial settlement
And occasional domestic crimes

Are recorded having happened here.
What is here? If you went back in time
A hundred, hundred and fifty years,

You’d land on an ordinary day.
It could almost make time travel dull.
Can you want to be a part of this

Without wanting to make your escape?
Children are meandering from school.
Vehicles pull in and out of lots.

There are some clouds. The weather’s not bad.
It’s real. It’s as real as any day,
Historically true. Ordinary.