Sitting in my chair,
I lean over close
To my guppy fish tank.
The guppies swim
To me like puppies
Excited to see me.
I know their excitement
Is not about liking me;
It is because I am
The God of Food.
Bob Boyd
Day: April 7, 2024
A Perfect Couple
They had a wonderful, heavenly wedding
Handsome husband, beautiful wife
Seemed destined for nuptial bliss forever
Perfect couple, so many things in common
Looked great together, an ideal couple
Many wished they had their perfect love
Six years later wife falls in love with coworker
Husband, healthy and fit, dead not long after that
Heavily insured
Bob Boyd
What Matters to Me
I don’t care how rich you are
Riches are a negative to me
I don’t care how degreed you are
You might think you’re better than me
I don’t care how successful and important you are
You might be too self-centered and have no time for me
I do care about how, humble, compassionate, and kind you are
Those are the things that matter to me.
Bob Boyd
I Wonder Where You Are Today
16, beautiful, always nicely dressed
Worked at a drugstore in Burlington, MA
All the guys wanted to be with you
Dream girl, few could compare
I believed you’d always be true
If some lucky day I could be with you
But crossing the street one rainy day
Your life and beautiful you ended
By a careless teenage driver
One of the worst tragedies of
My wayward teenage years
I wonder where you are today
Bob Boyd
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Survivor of Two Atomic Bombs
On business in Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 at 8:15 AM,
Tsutomu Yamaguchi heard an aircraft and thought he saw a parachute in the sky
Atomic bomb, Little Boy, 15 kilotons of TNT, exploded 2,000 feet above the city
80,000 people burned alive immediately. Tsutomu Yamaguchi saw the blast in the sky
Light brighter than the blazing sun shocked and temporarily blinded him.
The sound of the booming blast ruptured his eardrums, radiation burned his body.
Returned to his work in Nagasaki, able to work, air raid alarms sounded in the city;
Atomic bomb, Fat Boy, 21 kilotons of TNT, devastated Nagasaki on August 9th, 11AM,
Instantly killed 40,000 people. Miraculously Tsutomu survived that atomic bomb too,
High fever and vomiting for a week, became an advocate for nuclear disarmament.
Suffered from radiation-related ailments all his life, died at age 92, stomach cancer.
Today nuclear bombs have 455 and 800 kilotons of TNT. I pray never comes the doomsday
When those are dropped on any country, and so sad Tsutomu experienced such devastation.
And tragic over a hundred thousand people died in those explosions and more in the aftermath.
And wars still go on.
Bob Boyd