Oh, Did We Hurt You? How Can We Help?

It’s not for us to tell you
What’s the use and where’s the harm
In us, but then, you can’t mean
Those things but through us. So, how
Could you think you could use us
To know what we don’t? You don’t
Know? You’re locked in you as us.

Take a still hour, a blank space—
Fill it with us. Use your head.
There, now. Here we all are. Good?
No? The nurse lays out the knives.
We shine in the cold, white light.
What you’ll cut, you’ll cut with us—
Skin, bones, heart, guts. Watch the eyes.