This poem is taken from PN Review 73, Volume 16 Number 5, May - June 1990.
Two Poems
Canterbury thought
The bargain fair enough:
The offer of his flock
- Ungovernable,
If you ask,
By any rod or staff?
That might be true enough;
But the Pope ought
To find it bearable,
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