Crook Manifesto

This time Church was two hours late and Carney had to wait in what he decided was a shooting gallery that had recently been vacated after a raid by the cops or a triple murder. Honeycomb’s secret weapon: balloons in the shape of the Jackson 5’s heads and imprinted with their likenesses. A man has a hierarchy of crime, of what is morally acceptable and what is not, a crook manifesto, and those who subscribe to lesser codes are cockroaches. He hadn’t popped pain pills in days, and after a lifetime of wearing the same style of black Keats shoes, had finally bought a pair of canvas sneakers.