Don’t Call Me the P Word

Call me anything but that

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Tell me I’m persnickety
And I won’t prevaricate,
I will hasten to assure you
It is not my major trait.

Nor am I parsimonious,
Just ask my frugal man,
He will tell you I spend money
Quite as often as I can.

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Pragmatic? Maybe somewhat
When not given to a whim.
Practical each and every day
Strikes me as rather grim.

Call me positive, perky, pretty
And you’ll never make me panic.
Just don’t be so perfidious
As to say I am pedantic.

Written in response to a writing prompt to use the word pedantic in a story from the never-pedantic Robin Klammer