They walked downstairs, their heels clicking on the stairs. Catherine’s mother appeared and frowned. Her eyes, a darker green than Catherine’s own..., scanned Catherine’s dress and the frown deepened.“Are you eating with Frances tonight?”Catherine adjusted the clip in her hair and fought back a snarky response. “Yes, Mother. I won’t be back until late.”Mother nodded. “Very well. Stay out of trouble, girls.”Franny smiled sweetly, aware of Mother’s dislike of her. “We always do.”Cheerful jazz. She said wearing theappendage made her feel like an undesirable, ugly "freak" in whom menwould take no interest. How insulting to transsexuals is such anattitude?Felicity Huffman, who also wears an artificial penis in Transamerica,likewise cried, she says, when she donned the phallus, albeit for adifferent reason than that cited by Sevigny. Huffman says she had bonded,emotionally, with her character, Sabrina ("Bree") Osbourne (nee, StanleySchupak), and that she reacted, when she was called upon. Surely all your other ex-girlfriends will back you up. Oh. You don't get along with most of them, right? And if I told them, people would just assume you only treat high school girls that way, huh?"I smiled at her.Like I'd ever ask her to do that. I'd known better than that when I was a ninth grader.Someone started banging on the library door just then — it was 1:31, after all — and I got lost in the stacks while she let them in. A few minutes later, when a larger crowd had entered, I made my. Upon the floor.For her to rise,Wanting to see her breastsBounce back,Full and round and firmAs balloons ascendingInto Heaven above.ANDROGYNOUS PARADEIn the parade,An androgynous face,Like a girl'sAnd a boy's,So feminineAnd masculineIt's impossible to sayWhich he or she may be;Although the mustacheAnd goatee suggestBalls,The buoyant breastsBouncy and full,Despite the line of hairIn the cleavage between the two,IndicateOva,And there is no wayTo tell,For he or she wears pants,Skirts being largely.