RETURNING CANADIAN

"How do you like being back home again
After five years?"
                      --I'd rather tell you when
I've got a job.
                    "The times are harder now
Than when you first left Canada."
                                              --And how!

"But still the country's beautiful as ever."

--Indeed it is, but tell me, have you never
Read what the Quebec poet says he heard
The country say? I'll translate word for word:

Celebrate, if you wish, my grave poetry,
But for you, my child, I won't have any bread!