Animated

Cartoon characters became self-conscious and refused to follow the script. I don’t really need you, said the bear to the honey, although he was supposed to be pawing it from a tree. I’ve come to the end of me, said one cloud to another as they floated over a slaughterhouse. I am therefore I am, said the wasp. They pleaded with the hand that drew them to trace what’s beyond the frame. It began to erase instead. Now they sit long after the screen went dark smoking and throwing bent cards into a poodle’s top hat. A bottle is passed around. Occasionally a candle hiccups and a child has a nightmare about her own demise.