No Help for That | Jackie Clark

Reason intervenes and betrays no one
as its impetus goes unquestioned,
collecting things that get carried
and make us full of wrath,
like tangible windows, windexed and pondered.
Outside there are voices that do not come from within
Manners approach lithely,
wrestling the plaster that falls from above,
what is obscured in habit:
a large padded body that harms in turn