Name: Audio Recording "Mango, No 61" by Richard Blanco Poetry
Duration: 2 min 35 s
Description: Author Richard Blanco reads "Mango, Number 61" a poem from his first collection, "City of a Hundred Fires" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).

Chloe Firetto-Toomey's "Tranny Cat" for Reading Queer/O, Miami's "O, Hi There!" event.

Chloe Firetto-Toomey published a collection of poems in 2001, by, Loebertas Publishing, in her hometown, Bristol, England. She graduated from the University of Surrey, London, in 2003 with a Bachelor of the Arts in Creative Writing and moved to Miami in 2008. She is currently a first year MFA candidate of poetry at Florida International University and has recently been published in online literary journals, Every Writer’s Resource, Fish Food Magazine and Penumbra Review. 

Tranny Cat

Hedwig the cat 
is Transgendered.
Hungry in the hollow 
hall I hear the thin 
desolate 
cry.

A reoccurring 
urinary tract infection
left no option 
but Sex Reassignment Surgery,
having the smallest 
bladder the vet had ever 
seen.

Watching, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
the Cat comes out the closet 
overweight in his dinner 
jacket 
high on Prozac

& rocking 
socks that are too small
proud on the prowl  

flirtatious, once the meds 
kick in.
In that 
tragedy/comedy 
mask
like he’s just had 
the cream.

He waits for 
David Bowie with 
his Ziggy Stardust 
face, 

in catnip clouds. 
Hedwig, is Queen 
of the Cat-baret show. 



Tranny Cat by Chloe Firetto-Toomey

Author Richard Blanco reads "Mango, Number 61" a poem from his first collection, "City of a Hundred Fires" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998).

Audio Recording "Mango, No 61"

Richard Blanco Poetry

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