Cathy Queen of Cats
She says, I am the great great grand cousin of the queen of France. She lives upstairs, over there, next door to Joe the baby-grabber. Keep away from him, she says. He is full of danger. Benny and Blanca own the corner store. They"re okay except don"t lean on the candy counter. Two girls raggedy as rats live across the street. You don"t want to know them. Edna is the lady who owns the building next to you. She used to own a building big as a whale, but her brother sold it. Their mother said no, no, don"t ever sell it. I won"t. And then she closed her eyes and he sold it. Alicia is stuck-up ever since she went to college. She used to like me but now she doesn"t.
Cathy who is queen of cats has cats and cats and cats. Baby cats, big cats, skinny cats, sick cats. Cats asleep like little donuts. Cats on top of the refrigerator. Cats taking a walk on the dinner table. Her house is like cat heaven.
You want a friend, she says. Okay, I"ll be your friend. But only till next Tuesday. That"s when we move away. Got to. Then as if she forgot I just moved in, she says the neighborhood is getting bad.
Cathy"s father will have to fly to France one day and find her great great distant grand cousin on her father"s side and inherit the family house. How do I know this is so? She told me so. In the meantime they"ll just have to move a little farther north from Mango Street, a little farther away every time people like us keep moving in.
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