ANSWERED PRAYERS
—Truman Capote, Too Brief a Treat: The Letters of Truman Capote
When did I realize—
I was writing something different?
What made IN COLD BLOOD—
a different kind of novel?
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Ditching everything I knew—
calling it a nonfiction novel?
Different than my early stories—
OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS?
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Different than my travelogues—
my filmscript for THE INNOCENTS?
Was it later toward the end—
leaving ANSWERED PRAYERS undone?
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Had Kansas really changed me—
subverting and seducing me?
Queering me into writing this—
strange “nonfiction” novel?
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The bleak gothic landscape—
the texture of language itself?
Forcing me to junk everything—
all the genres I ever knew
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Exiling myself outta myself—
then putting me back in
NO more invisible reportage—
instead becoming the Other
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Telling the story all over again—
alone here in this darkness
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