Paper Cut Melodrama

[tectak]

Ouch! A paper cut!
Guillotined by printer parchment!
Canyons of skin, carved by a crimson river,
oversee numbness advance like Pleistocene glaciers.a little structural uncertainty here
Fingers curl and plead for iced tap water.
Devils radiate up my nervous system, whispering intrigue
of a prince bested by a commoner’s breadknife.nice phraseology but the "...intrigue of a prince bested" is hard to assimilate...for me, anyway.
Talk turns to riven skies, to earthquakes,"
to cracks in the Earth’s crust.
Plans drawn up to empty the bars of alcohol,
to build defense shields of gauze and cotton balls,
fall to wanton mobs of maniacs and clowns.Brilliant dichotomies in this. The threat of chaos is tangible and certain by intent and structure at the same instant. You might consider a few less "as" in the next lines because the syncronization of overlayered events is probably less important than the inevitability of their sum.
As ascetics run rampant with flagellating birch rods,So: As ascetics.....the ancient statues....and everyone clasps......all seems lost". Your poem
as ancient statues crumple to hails of rocket fire,
as everyone clasps hands in a final plea for grace,
all seems lost.
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Tranquility always comes with a new day’s retrospect.Yes. Bang. Commitment. This is where we were going. Destination.

You know what you are writing about and it shows. This is commitment verse and is commendable. I can look down a microscope and see half of your descriptive imagery...I can look through a telescope and see the other half. "Canyons scream.." is just perfect. I have looked down my microscope at the callous, the cut and the crimson...it is all in this poem.
My only nit is that you jump a little too quickly off the cliff of complexity and leave the more timid (me) unable to take the frightening leap of faith with you. I may need to clarify. The tonal change between L7 and L8 is a little too much. I feel that you need to separate the certainty of bodily perception from the cerebral peregrination that follows, though this opinion of mine could be modified if you could find another two or three lines to lead in to the conclusion. Sometimes I annoy myself in this area.
Your word choices are not at fault here...it is just a category shift...Iike a dentist talking about drilling to a coal miner. No. I have just reread it. Leave it alone. Miners have plaque and dentists coal fires!
A great effort.
Best,
tectak