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The eye of every storm

by Paper Cut Scenario

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November 11, 2017

The Dusk In Us

I was so naive and fearful of the substantive Of the greying days, of carrying endless weight And what it really meant to truly mean something To really be someone who could be loved So lost in d...


October 26, 2017

Tell me your sins....

Well. Here it is. I’m really depressed. I don’t know or understand why. I have an amazing job, an amazing wife, and amazing friends. I think the six surgeries last year (and the one upcoming ...


October 23, 2017

A Subsequent Navigation

The water’s dark, an oil slick across the expanse, ever growing and there is no end in sight. Land, solid ground, is a distant memory. It’s been awhile since I’ve stood on terra firma. The onl...


October 18, 2017

Orion

Orion appears from the east, arrow taut and upward, frozen solid in a motionless image millions of years old, and we’re just now seeing him, connecting the dots into a hunter, into a warrior. It...


October 12, 2017

Cursed

all the cursed things one of them is me in an old tomb blood spilt on a rune say it’s not so i must atone pissed off a witch she took all my bones


October 09, 2017

Some Heavy Weight.

I didn’t go to work today. The winds, they lashed through the pouring rain. And the morning fog makes the train horn sound a little louder than its ever been. I saw the earth tilt inside your ...


September 09, 2017

Why I Love Florida

I walked out of Florida. It took me almost 1300 miles, a friend named Robin, and a greyhound bus to somewhere close to the Appalachian Trail, and several other friends to pin point that exact l...


July 04, 2017

A Slight Nod to Freedom

The Fourth of July finds my wife hunched over a whisk bowl, ceaselessly churning a mixture of cocoa, flour, baking powder, and other various ingredients into a form slightly thicker than freshly ...


May 13, 2017

So this happened....

Ol’ Paper Cut Scenario got hitched.


I’m nervous. I mean lump in your throat nervous, like you’re about to get in big trouble and don’t know what to do- nervous. It’s not like that, though. The lump in my throat is not from somet...


I was going to write about 2016. It sucked. I had both of my toes excavated for gange green treasure. My hip had a hole drilled into it, through my leg bone, to introduce new marrow growth bec...


December 28, 2016

The Year in Review, Snapshot 1

January 02: I’m sitting on a strange chair with my foot propped up. A nurse removes the bandage from my large right toe. I don’t look. There’s so much blood. The way my toenails regrew aft...


December 16, 2016

Dancing In The Dark

Doctor John Watson. Doctor John Watson is a dog, With floppy ears and he smells really bad. He is a doooooggggg. Doctor John Watson. Doctor John Watson is a dog. Thanks for reading that. Now rer...


December 09, 2016

A Brief Moment of Clarity

Currently: Chopin’s Nocturne in E flat minor resonates throughout the house. The Noctures. The Fugues. They are the death before something more. They are frenzied in their scope. The barricade...


November 14, 2016

These Are The Beautiful Things

Cut to scene: It’s Spring. April Spring. The sky is blue above, and there are clouds sailing sideways across the expanse. I look up, place my hand over my eyes to block the sunlight. The cl...


November 12, 2016

This Is How the Story Ends

Hospital room’s brown. Tiles are brown with little brown flecks. On the wall, there’s a banister either to hold yourself or prevent gurney’s from crashing through the drywall. It’s brown. Thi...


October 21, 2016

My Vincent Van Gogh Costume

Started working on my Van Gogh. I think its coming together nicely. It’s attention to detail that really makes it stand out.


It’s been awhile since we’ve talked. Maybe we’re estranged, like exes that never broke up. We just stopped seeing one another, you and I. Honestly, I don’t have a desire to write anymore. Thi...


and I must be insane to go skating on your name and by tracing it twice i fell through the ice of alice. I covered a tom waits song. you should listen to it. I think I like it. https://w.soundc...


July 21, 2016

MPKII

Well. I bought this thing. I’ve never had one of these. One of the hardest aspects of the damn thing is just learning the computer software behind it. What happened to just playing the damn pi...


Joe Scali was the great Italian uncle I never had. He was brilliant, graduating first in his class from the Music Conservatory of Chicago. He could play every instrument as well as he could dri...


June 04, 2016

I notice everything

I wrote a song a couple of hours ago and recorded it. I really like it. I don’t know why. https://soundcloud.com/user-171698721/i-notice-everything Here’s some words. People are big on those t...


May 31, 2016

honey

I got Katrina a job at Major Airline. Well, that’s not true. Let’s back up. Katrina got herself a job at Major Airline, in my department. This all happened when I was out for my surgery, so I...


May 16, 2016

Global Warming

I buried seeded lies, and the trees grew emotions and died, so now you can’t breathe.


I’ve been out of work nearly two months. Not as in fired. Just not working. My hip was all hurty for most of March, then I had my surgery, and I guess these things take time, ya know. I go bac...


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to all the destruction in men, now I select you.