Contraceptive Chaucer

You tell me that translations
Are like rubber gloves in sex.
Oh very well for you to say
Safe at thirty-six.
But at nineteen the real thing
Can overwhelm and ruin
The remains of life.
So, let all great things come--
in time.


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