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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.

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Date: 7/5/2018 6:14:00 AM
Really nice Ode, Matthew!
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