My Cat, She Hates Christmas Funny Illustrated Jazz Beat Poem

Created an animated short based on a little poem I wrote called “My Cat, She Hates Christmas”. Complete with jazz bass to give it a 1950’s beat poem style.

Lyrics:

“My Cat, she hates Christmas
An obvious fact
You can tell that it’s true
By the way she will act

She hates it so much
And I don’t mean to boast
But if yours hates it too
Then mine hates it the most!

She thinks she’s so clever
To avoid altercations
She’ll wait ‘til I’m gone
To break my decorations

If ever I cover
My things with fake snow
She’ll quickly decide
That it all has to go

She’ll knock the tree over
To crash on the floor
I’ll pick it back up
but she’ll do it once more!

She’ll break all the jingle bells
So they won’t ring
Then meow at the carolers
When they try to sing

Her litter box kills
All Christmassy whiffs
She’ll claw at the presents
To expose all the gifts

She sheds all December
And never will care
If my mug of eggnog
Gets covered in hair

I look at her strange
She looks at me stranger
As she lays atop
The nativity manger

But come Christmas morning
She’ll bolt to the tree
And sniff at the gifts, asking
“Which one’s for me?”

And when she finds hers
It brings her such joy
To find 12 cans of tuna
And new catnip toy

She’ll eat all the tuna
And then she will play
With her new catnip toy
For the rest of the day

She doesn’t hate Christmas!
That’s easy to see!
But if she doesn’t hate Christmas
…She must just hate me!”

Character design, animation, illustration, music, narration all done by myself, Ben Sanczel.

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