"An Ode On A Bakken Blog" With Apologies To John Keats

From a reader. Much appreciated. 

My French is nonexistant, abysmal at its best

Yo hablo Espanol, poquito, on behest

Can count to 12 in Norske, and consider that a shame

Lutefisk and lefse and an old Norwegian name

I read a lot of books, when ere I had the chance

Unbound imagination, the images did dance

Mom described my dreams, when talking to another

as vivid, realistic, akin to Technicolor

So, poetry's to blame for my early "big word" years

"Runcible" and "peripatetic" were music to my ears

Mom read "Owl and the Pussycat" ( "Silver Churn and magnet", too)

I knew those poems by heart, when I first went to school

Later years brought other words, in dribs and drabs and hanks

And it was after college, 'fore I filled in some blanks

Working years brought other words, of legal, banking sorts

A needlepointing hobby - taught me the great word "orts"

I've picked up "heretofore'" a legal term when shared

with "previously notwithstanding", subsequently paired

But, then, just like the Hillbillies, the Bakken bubbled over

And new terms came a'gusher - and like a hog in clover

There's new words, new terms, maps and charts, and acronyms galore

I found a blogspot quite by chance, those posts I do adore

Keeps me current on the DUC's, the fracs, the mergers, acquisitions

Kept me curious, then furious at DAPL's hippie exhibitions

But  even though it's oil news... it's truly that I follow

Another quirk has been unearthed, and like I hog I wallow

Vocabulary!  Brand new words! and terms unheard and more

The Internet my searching quest,  created by Al Gore

But led down paths before untook, and countless rabbit holes

Why "singerie" and "Carver's cabin" were never language goals

But like "penultimate", "puisne" and measuring gas's conundrums

It's kept me entertained, no room for having humdrums

So, thanks, for Bakken News - a NoDak loud ovation

Visit Big Sky Montana, and have a great vacation.

Alas, the pipelines won't be done, when you return a Texican

And if I find a new word, I'll just save it for the lexicon.