Poem by Wystan Hugh Auden

Give Me a Doctor

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.

1. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
2. On the Circuit
3. Horae Canonicae: Prime
4. Christmas Oratio
5. At the Party

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