William Sauro
CAPOTE THE WRITER
that no one in the larger
write or not. If you want
to write, it is you and you
alone who must create the
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Which is what Capote did—
in order to survive way Out There
Gawd knows Truman was—
strange & outré enough as it was
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He needed Harper Lee desperately—
to accompany him Out There
Because that’s what it really was—
compared with New York City
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He simply loved & adored NYC—
loved the feel of pavement under
His heels going clickity-click down—
busy classy chic Fifth Avenue
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Major thoroughfare of Manhattan—
Fifth Avenue crossing Midtown
Especially 49th Street to 60th Street—
lined with prestigious shops & resaurtants
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After all, isn’t that where Tiffany’s was—
the "most expensive street in the world"?
Once he’d done that, go figure what—
really matters to a writer like Capote
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Doesn’t it seem strange to you that—
he’d give William Shawn a call right away?
After reading the little article there—
that morning in The New York Times?
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Why would Capote even want to—
go out there to that godforsaken hell?
And be on the Santa Fe Super Chief—
with Harper Lee as soon as possible?
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Was it literary ambition that drove him—
desire for GONE WITH THE WIND fame?
Wanting to be America’s very own Valentin—
Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust?
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Surely smart critics saw thru his façade—
Capote’s whole Non-Fiction Novel fantasy?
Ending up writing about it as if his life—
depended on it (because, in fact, it did)?
