DOING IN COLD BLOOD

Capote’s “In Cold Blood”—

Was actually a Three-way

Sordid pulp fiction Novel

If you know what I mean

A Novel and two Flicks—

Based on 4 grisly murders

In Holcomb Kansas back

In 1959 when I was a kid

Capote’s non-fiction novel—

Had all the class of tres chic

Sophisticated New Yorker

Style and Slick Decadence

The first flick in 1967—

Directed by Richard Brooks

And starring Robert Blake’s

Stunning portrayal of me

The second flick in 2005—

With Philip Seymour Hoffman

As the troubled, ingratiating

Ambitious queer Capote

The Clutter murders in 1959—

Capote’s book published in 1965

Two years later Brook’s film then

Hoffman’s masturbation piece