Monday, December 10, 2012

To Kill a Mockingbird


TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD


Harper Lee had put Truman—

Right in the middle of her novel
As the young weird kid “Dill”
Fictionalizing the Deep South

Then it was Truman Capote’s turn—
To put Harper and him on the
Santa Fe Super Chief all the
Way to Garden City Kansas

That’s where he wrote it—
There in a motel with Harper’s
Help and William Shawn with
The New Yorker’s funding

IN COLD BLOOD


How does this Novel—

Work nonfiction-wise for a
Kansas kid growing up in a
Small town like Emporia

It’s been over 50 years—
Since the Holcomb homicides
And Kansas will never ever
Be the same since then

William Allen White’s—
Placid little college town
Somehow stands still today
Like a Midwestern noir novel


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