Ode To An Oklahoma Locksmith

Nationwide Insurance twas on my side yay
cuz, earlier this July forth
two thousand eighteen ja way
windows closed, doors locked, and

car keys visibly splayed
on driver seat oye vay
feel free to call me a horse's ass today
utter anxiety compounded,

plus unable to locate master key,
thence fodder for poem and more to say
rifling thru boxes without success,
an impulse arose to call road

upon learning policy
doth include locksmith service,
ah felt less doggone snappish,
and uttered hoo ray

though modest aye,
congratulated awesome,
fulsome, and handsome
self on quick thinking,

and automatically became less tiresome
pondering for no particular rhyme nor reason
(as a getaway) Panama or Paraguay
then immediate decided,

sans ditto explanation,
but no how and nay
yet honest to dog suddenly felt
like a young lovestruck lad

during month of May
and without further delay
a compulsion arose
to putter along, though

momentarily gazing heavenward
and counting (just beak caws)
glistening black crows
plus painfully aware

a spike in recurrent
"senior" moment of forgetfulness grows,
thus starkly aware significant rustiness
increasingly, frightfully,

and chokingly coats
lix spit tillage harrows
resuming schlepping dishabille
crotchety bedeviled aching

body electric irksome
with fringe benefit (such as
momentary lapse of reason)
quite aware mettlesome

ness of youth nonrefundable,
non-reliable, and non-retrievable,
and guaranteed continued
pricking, viz nettlesome

degenerating aging telomeres,
sensate perspicuity, and oxysomes
leaving a once robust person some
what discombobulated
and easily toilsome.