I have patience in abundance.
But I was disturbed to learn,
There is no word like “perturbance”
A lady editor insisted,
And, when challenged, she persisted,
So, not feeling quite contrary
I looked into a dictionary:
There's “disturb” and there's “disturbance,”
There's “perturb”, but no “perturbance!”
Is it any consolation
That there is a “perturbation?”
Yet, between just you and me,
If there is not, there should be!
And, the editors to tease,
I will use it, if I please!
And, though it may make folks morose,
“A perturbance” I will cause!...