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!!!
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