#2,577 Blood Lines

Truman Capote & Harper Lee
dragged at cocktails & fags in
Kansas –
that trauma of death
set higher by circumstance of
why they were there –
a novel
in it –
as writers un-block over
broken open cigarette packs
in strangers’ homes –
murder
stinks –
recompense in ropes
& book sales –
return-shift all