Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish
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/// That cartoonist’s cliché, the dog catcher,
wears a top hat to augment his stature.
But, what few people knew;
he’ll catch dog walkers, too.
(His second job is body snatcher.)
/// Danish surgeons are men of respect.
They are trained with a corpse to dissect.
The dog catcher was tasked
to bring, no questions asked)
bodies. Source? None must ever suspect.
/// Had the “Walker,” Knud, done something wrong
to engender a hatred so strong?
“Catcher” thought hate well earned
from the gossip he’d learned:
That was his bitch Knud’s stringing along.