Box Office Treats

BOX OFFICE TREATS

“to brief a treat”
—Truman Capote to
Robert Linscott 5/6/1949
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My boyfriends back then—
were much too much
too brief a treat

Those lovely Granada—
balcony quickies in the
dark down on my knees
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Anything, my dears—
was better than that
awful Midwestern noir

Even tacky, butchy—
Charlton Heston all
sweaty in BEN HUR
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Altho I preferred—
sleazy Lana Turner in
IMITATION OF LIFE

Claiming her daughter—
knifed handsome gangster 
hung Johnny Stompanato