Password Blues

 

I’ve got the password blues:

can’t remember what I’ve used—

hardly know what to choose

deep in the password blues.

 

I’ve run out of children,

I’ve run out of pets,

used up old addresses..

What’s more, I forget.

 

Is it alphanumeric, or simply generic?

Keys to accounts? Anxiety mounts:

Too much to remember, those user IDs—

I’ve got more passwords than my dog has fleas.

 

Password for the internet, password for traveling,

Password for payroll..my life is unraveling.

One for my messages, one for my mail,

One for my bank account, one that just fails.

 

Elephant memory is what we need,

or a list, if I pay the experts no heed.

Turn on the computer—my heart drops to my socks.

There’s always another log-in box.

 

It’s a bad, bad feeling, 

like rain in my shoes.

I’ve got no memory—

and the password blues.