Reply To: WYSIWYG without p but with br

In the output I'm trying to create, I have a line of static text followed by the output from a WYSIWYG field. <p> provides significantly more spacing than <br> and in this specific application it looks bad. What I'm trying to output is <p>my static text<br>first line of WYSIWYG output text<br>second line of WYSIWYG output text</p>