A Poetic Interview With Nancy Clutter
...A Poetic Interview with Nancy Clutter
(This poetic interview is fictional and imaginary, and is based on 47 years of study and repeated readings relative to Truman Capote’s novel, In Cold Blood, p...
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Categories:
hickock, death,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
If Youse Guys
...If Youse Guys
If youse guys knock on my door,
I ain’t gonna answer it, no freaking way, man!
Youse could be Perry Smith and Dick Hickock standing there,
Holding a flashlight, a fishing knife, a...
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Categories:
hickock, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Black, Black Hills
...Oh black, Black hills above the grass,
rising up like a giant hold-fast.
On your sides heros are carved,
cut by patriotic hearts.
Great stone needles rising high,
futilely reaching for the s...
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Categories:
hickock, america, appreciation, beauty, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Westward Ho'
...In the 1600's, Europeans lived on the eastern shore
Their numbers grew, they wanted more.
Iroquios, Sauk, Ottawa, and Mohawk were tribes they met
Too many and more, paid our forefathers' debt.
Me...
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Categories:
hickock, adventure, cowboy-western, history, native
Form: Rhyme
Wild Bill
...Lyrics:
Wild Bill Hickock was his name,
From Kansas he did come,
To the Black Hills of Dakota Land,
While the gold rush was on.
Chorus:
He already had a name as Marshall,
And one for mar...
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Categories:
hickock, cowboy-western, history,
Form: I do not know?