Sense Sonnet - Pumper

Good Friend to Have

In 1926, I went
To Chicago to find a crook
Who'd swindled me for ev'ry cent
I'd saved. I looked in the phone book
For the number of an Al Brown,
Who I had met some years before,
When he was visiting my home town.
I called and told him my sad score.
He said to wait in my hotel.
Later, the manager brought me
My savings to this southern belle,
And said politely as can be,

"You'll have no trouble once it's known"
"You're a friend of Al Capone."