Paper Pirates

The sailboat drags through blue construction paper waters. Turbulence is high and there are many paper cuts. On Sundays it rains spit wads, but the boat is made of red paperboard and easily deflects them. The origami sailors wear black tissue paper hats and are equipped with telescopes and shurikens they use to combat paper monsters and commandeer passing vessels.

But sometimes, after the background had been swapped from blue to black paper, the pirates drift into a familiar melancholy and wonder why the sea never ends...

At dawn the black paper is crumpled into a ball and lit on fire, and a sea serpent folded from a color photograph of a naked woman appears and rustles with the sound of paper against paper. She batters the sailboat with her devil's tale and the pirates counter with cardboard cannons. Hit, bleeding paper mache and spewing confetti, she shrieks like the tearing of paper as she is recycled into the sea of Post-it notes and single-use greeting cards.

Victorious and watermarked, the paper pirates sail off past flying windmill flowers and into the infinite ocean...