IN COLD BLOOD

A Brief History of Kansas

The Super Chief

In Cold Blood (1967)

The Granada

Gothic Americana

Murder Ordained (1987)

A Brief History of Kansas

All the dead Indians—

We made the landscape mean

Then we put our roots down

The Super Chief

When Truman Capote—

And Harper Lee took the

Super Chief to Kansas

Passing thru Emporia—

On their way to Holcomb

The Clutter Murder scene

Pretty little Holcomb—

Such a nice quiet innocent

Kansas farming town

Lots of blood had already—

Drenched the prairie by

Then & more to come

In Cold Blood (1967)

Buying some rope—

At Haines Hardware

To tie up the Clutters

Robert Blake and—

Scott Wilson drove

Thru quiet Emporia

On their way to Holcomb—

To kill the Clutter family

Blowing their brains out

Staying in a motel—

For the trial, Capote

Does a nonfiction novel

He visits the prison—

The appeals drag on and

His novel has ho end

The Granada

When “In Cold Blood”—

Shows at the Granada

Emporians are shocked

How could such a—

Horrible thing happen

In mild-mannered Kansas?

It made Harper Lee’s—

“To Kill a Mockingbird”

Look like a tea party

That dark stark night—

Stopped outside the

Lonely Clutter farmhouse

Talking about the crime—

They were going to commit

Shotgun in the backseat

Gothic Americana

Watching the movie—

There in the Granada

That old film palace

Across from the street—

From the staid limestone

Old Presbyterian church

Was like watching a—

Nightmare version of that

Grant Wood famous painting

“American Gothic” turned—

Into a terrible bloody local

Kansas film noir flick

So much for “The Robe”—

“Demetrios & the Gladiators”

This was Sixties reality

Murder Ordained (1987)

Another shocker—

To the local Kansas faithful

There in little Emporia

The good Reverend of the—

Faith Lutheran Church

Murdered his lovely Wife

Dumped her body off—

Rocky Point Bridge and

Ran her car into the river

He’d fallen in love with—

His slutty church secretary

The cute Lorna Anderson

Cold-blooded murders—

Both in Holcomb & Emporia

The only way to go!!!