one marker.
eleven seconds.
nobody fixed the mouth.

the question i get
There was one marker left in the drawer.
I have answered this four hundred times. It never gets better.

printed on the barrel, do not lose it
exhibit one
It was already drying out. Nobody tested it on the corner of the page first. Nobody went back to the drawer to look for a second colour. Eleven seconds later there was me.
exhibit two
ear
also ear
whiskers, one side
eye
other eye, lower
mouth, went wrong
Not one line here was drawn twice. I have stopped waiting for the second attempt.
the rest of the drawer
same marker, same eleven seconds, nothing drawn twice




still blue, still the same marker