Fighting corruption, the story
Al Capone's boys gave for per-
petrating the St Valentine's
Day disturbance on Chicago's
near North Shore, rat-a-tat
artillery billowing fumes of
credibility as they spoke,
strikes us all these days as
a likelier story than the ex-
cuse of setting out for a set
of tennis in a sweater of met-
aphors so garbled as to sport
a hemstitched tartan collar,
juxtaposed with a "US" logo-
type, above a tweed waistband,
with one ear at least plugged
with surveillance gear, and a
necklace dangling pathetically
shorter than a garish red tie.
Bartek Szmigulski
Kit Butler rolls his eyes
2019
