Granada Alcove

GRANADA ALCOVE

“This is the last time
I am ever going to
write “a reportage.”
—Truman Capote
to Richard Avedon
Sept 22, 1960
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Kansas was simply—
depressing enough without
doing a movie about it

Writing a novel—
was bad enough all
those dreary nights
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There in Garden City—
at the No Tell Motel with
those traveling salesmen

Harper Lee simply—
abandoning me there
without a fag hag guide
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Like Blanche DuBois—
I had to depend on the
kindness of strangers

But all those paranoid—
Holcomb farmboys
didn’t like me, honey