'Broken Neck' by Robert Graves

I keep his 'Collected Poems' on my Kindle of course but yesterday I took the Penguin edition that Eleanor gave me a long time ago and it fell open at this poem. Inevitably it is a love poem, since no one else has ever written as well and as comprehensively about that particular matter. Do challenge ( with examples please!) that assertion. BROKEN NECK 'Some forty years or maybe more' Pronounced the radiologist,'you broke Your neck: that is to say, contrived to fracture Your sixth cervical vertebra - see here, The picture's clear - and between sixth and seventh Flattened this cartilage to uselessness: Hence rheumatism. Surely you recall Some incident? We all do foolish things While young, and obstinately laugh them off - Till they catch up with us in God's own time. Let me prescribe you a Swiss analgesic Which should at least.....' Love, I still laugh it off And all such Swiss m...