Sleeping on my mother’s t-shirt is my half-sister Cornzee, the orange marmalade cat with a weight that far succeeds mine, though she is female and I am boy. Also sleeping is Thumby, the grand puba of all best friends. She is, although narcoleptic, the truest and most alert of all. Thumby teaches at a children’s school on Norfolk Street around the corner from the lesbian bar with the felinesque sobriquet “Meow Mix.” Thumby teaches kids how to write fake stories, and how to shimmy. She has appeared in music videos for such luminaries as Snoop Dotty Doe and Crust Daddy.