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“Give Me a Doctor” by W. H. Auden 🇬🇧🇺🇸 (21 Feb 190729 Sep 1973)
Give me a doctor partridge-plump,
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.