Sunday, March 24, 2013

New Journalism




MISS CAPOTE: NEW JOURNALISM 


IN COLD BLOOD be an acid Flashback—
an American X-Ray Snapshot of Hell

Suddenly New York City comes to visit—
naïve, innocent little Garden City, KS
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IN COLD BLOOD not just a NOVEL—
it be NEW JOURNALISM at its best

Shockingly trashy as NATIONAL ENQUIRER—
reminiscent of HOLLYWOOD CONFIDENTIAL
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Dreary & drag-queen as DRAGNET—
“Just the FACTS, lady, just the FACTS”

Skip de usual tacky bourgeois reportage—
just like her interview with Miss Brando
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C’mon, like stop fuckin around, baby—
Let’s get down to the personal nitty-gritty

I ain’t got time fuckin around dontchaknow—
the Clutters got butchered like Hogs, honey
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Right out there in the middle of All-American—
kitschy Kansas suddenly gone Film Noir

The question be WHY & HOW did it happen—
unlike in jaded so-what ho-hum NYC?
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Miss Capote got right in there, baby—
got to know American Gothic all de way

Livin in de High Plains Motel forever—
there in the fuckin boondocks of Kansas
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Him & nobody else except Avedon—
his old friend from NYC documentary dayz

This be how NEW JOURNALISM begins—
in de stark Precincts of de BIG APPLE


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