In the Middle Ages people went looking for the center of things
Sometimes it seemed they could almost see it
Sometimes it came at them from a crazy angle and it scared them
They made a fiction of the past and always woke up in the future
They were ashamed that not much had happened for them since Adam and Eve got evicted
They felt late for something
and couldn’t get over how much they didn’t know
They had been the sweetest babies once and learned the language
But God owned all the quiet spots so they never learned the silence
They had visions but didn’t see the data centers and the ICE raids coming
The voices they heard in the air were not in the language they had learned
They felt like they were being followed