Cut! by Andrew Harrison

What are you?

You painfully remind us of a brief encounter with a sharp blade or object

You’re an action that deliberately removes a body part or divides something into smaller pieces

In skilled crafting hands, you shape the material world in wood, cloth, stone and more

You fashion hairstyles and trim our lawns

You provide a gap through which roads, rail or waterways can pass

You provide vinyl records with the ability to make sounds

You are editorial omissions to text, film or performances that tell a story

You remove text in a document for pasting elsewhere

Buyers use you to reduce the costs they are prepared to spend on a house

You can end or interrupt supplies to foreign territories

Your dark side mixes illegal substances

With words you are a mocking injury or insult

You are to a final film what editing is to a story

And with your command a director ends a scene or filming stops… CUT!