keypers

Lost friendship, lonely highways and the northern valley. I can see it all from here.
From this ribbon I made a keychain and I put home next to here next to journal next to mailbox... it's all the same now. I tied four keys together but I only use two of them. The one I am missing cannot be replaced. When I brought that key to the locksmith last Monday he told me it was too complicated to copy. Too complicated to copy? What makes a key complicated? The ribbon slips through the top of all keys just the same. He tells me, the locksmith tells me, it's because of the ridges. The ridges? "Yeah, the grooves, these things," and he runs his thumb over the part of the key that fits perfectly into the lock. I can tell he works with his hands because there are white cracks at his knuckles and a callous on the inside of that thumb. How come some keys seem like they fit, they slide in easily but don't turn? How come other keys that aren't the "right keys" slide in, turn and open the lock? How come a flimsy bobby pin can do the work a complicated key does if the right person is behind it? If the right person, or the right key with the right ridges will unlock what it is I lost the key to, can you? The locksmith said, "Yes."