Poems of the Week

A Break with Tradition

by Alex Steelsmith

“The pontiff [said he sustained]… a slight bone fracture in his knee from a fall…”
AP

Slippety trippety,
Jorge Bergoglio
tumbled. Thank heavens, the
damage was small.

Still, some consider it
counterintuitive.
Popes are infallible;
how can they fall?