DOING CAPOTE
Nobody could do Capote—
Like Capote did himself
Supposedly inventing a
Whole new Novel genre
The Novel as Film Noir—
The Book as a Movie
I saw it all in the Granada
Kansas turned into Film
Emporians weren’t ready—
Shocked by the Violence
To think that the Killers
Slithered through downtown
HAYNES HARDWARE STORE
The weird thing was that—
I lived next door in Emporia
To Mr. & Mrs. Haynes there on
Constitution Street in town
A long elm-shaded street—
Stretching down lazy afternoons
Past KSTC campus to my small
Emporia High School
The only murders I’d known—
Were the Hollywood ones then
In the Granada & the Strand
And the 50-S Drive In
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