Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

By David Perlmutter

Copyright 2013 by David Perlmutter

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Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone

By David Perlmutter

1.

I’m telling you, there’s been a mistake! I don’t belong here!

You’re one to talk about mistakes, kid!

The two speakers of these words, suffice it to say, came from very different backgrounds. The latter speaker was one of many here in this rather standard immigration office, identical to numerous others across the continent of North America. Yet, in this case, the circumstances were different. This immigration officer was in charge of a special kind of new immigrant: fictional characters from television land whose programs were about to be or had been cancelled. Here, however, in the person of the oddly dressed young man in front of him, he seemed to perceive what looked to him like a special case.

The first speaker was more accustomed to awkward situations as his life had been one big awkward situation. His name was Cicero Clayton, and, until recently, he had been one of the stars of the popular American/Canadian animation series My Best Friend Is A BLUENOSE? which, until recently, had been running with modest success on both the American Moving Drawings and the Canadian CanuckToon cable channels. That is until, unbeknownst to Cicero and the rest of the cast, a dispute over marketing, profits and royalties had cut the show off in the middle of production. The arrogant Canadian government wanted more money out of the cut as well as script approval rights, which greedy, selfish Moving Drawings was unwilling to pay or grant. So Cicero and friends now found themselves on the bubble, as it were, until when—and if—production of the series resumed. Which is why Cicero (or Sissy, as he was affectionately called by his associates—against his will) now found