yellowjackets diving my picnic,
column of spring ants coming through
the floor crack, twenty-three skidoo!
runny nose from blowing grasses,
headaches after clenching teeth through
dream-fraught nights, twenty-three skidoo!
and twenty-three skidoo all you
phone scammers, leaf-blow whiners,
fast-lane slow drivers, gossipers
at the workplace cooler,
every newer version of every
instrument we thought we knew,
give me back the old, I say,
and twenty-three skidoo!
Note: “Twenty-three skidoo” is an early expression of American slang, meaning, “shoo”, “go away,” “get out of here”. Below is a usage example from the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn published in 1943:
“He dispersed the crowd very simply by telling them he'd send for the pie wagon and take them all down to the station house if they didn't twenty-three skidoo.”