Kneeling, he retrieved

the tchotchke and when

he did, he felt the zeitgeber

course through his veins

and arteries reviving

his energy so he could

continue his work as

a mahout but as he

mistook the gravity

of his error, the

elementary school

spelling bee students

had already exhausted

the voluminous number

of approved words and

the bee had to be ad-

journed till the next week

so the judges could find

a new cache of words

so the contestants could

then reach for the prize

of the trinket, which

will help restore their

biological clocks to

tend their elephantine

knowledge of how

words are spelled

until one luxates.

However, given the

circumstances, most

in attendance would

say both deserved

the prize and the 

man realized his error

and went back to 

pick up the

elephantpucky.

(Hint: obscure words in first part of poem are repeated as everyday synonyms in the second part, except one easy word in the first part is obscure in the second.)