Not Quite Cricket

Not quite cricket, old boy.

He wears the coat. He knows the terms.

He has practiced, at length, the art of looking harmless.

Everyone at this table knows the rules are theater.

He plays along because that's the job, technically.

You can dress ambition in tweed and call it manners.

Doesn't make the manners real.

Ink on paper, A3 · "Business as Usual" series.