Give me a doctor partridge-pump,
Short in the leg and broad in the rump,
An endomorph with gentle hands
Who'll never make absurd demands
That I abandon all my vices
Nor pull a long face in a crisis,
But with a twinkle in his eye
Will tell me that I have to die.
Footnotes
W H Auden (1907-73), English born American author, in Nones, 1951
Submitted by Fred Charatan, retired geriatric physician, Florida
