Monday, December 10, 2012

Doing Capote


DOING CAPOTE


Nobody could do Capote—

Like Capote did himself
Supposedly inventing a
Whole new Novel genre

The Novel as Film Noir—
The Book as a Movie
I saw it all in the Granada
Kansas turned into Film

Emporians weren’t ready—
Shocked by the Violence
To think that the Killers
Slithered through downtown

HAYNES HARDWARE STORE


The weird thing was that—

I lived next door in Emporia

To Mr. & Mrs. Haynes there on

Constitution Street in town

 

A long elm-shaded street—

Stretching down lazy afternoons

Past KSTC campus to my small

Emporia High School 

The only murders I’d known—
Were the Hollywood ones then
In the Granada & the Strand
And the 50-S Drive In


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