Josie Whitehead’s Poems
PEDANTIC
adj. Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details. You can’t tell a pedantic person ANYTHING because he knows it all already – although he’s only studied it in his book.
MR PEDANTIC
By Josie Whitehead
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What’s to be done with Mr Pedantic?
If you hid all his books, he’d soon become frantic.
For his whole life’s conducted from words in his book.
Ask him a question, but then wait whilst he looks.
So what’s to be done with Mr Pedantic?
Without help from his book, he can’t get romantic.
He refers to his book before sending some roses –
And reads just what to say before he proposes.
What a horrible man is Mr Pedantic –
He’a a know-all, a show-off; his head is gigantic!
He sounds so superior and makes others seem thick.
Whilst my mind seems slow, his is so quick.
We know what we’ll do with Mr Pedantic.
We’ll send him canoeing across the Atlantic.
He’ll not find any books way out at sea –
And whilst he’s canoeing, he can’t annoy me.
Copyright 2007