Will Those Frozen Heads Ever Wake Up

Heard about people having their
heads frozen after they died.
What was the point of that?
They believed in the far future
Scientists would reanimate their heads
And provide them with new, fresh bodies,
Probably manufactured in laboratories.
This poses the question can these braindead heads
Become jump started with their marbles intact?
Perhaps those who probably paid through the nose,
Pun intended, for these Frankensteinian, guillotine-like services
Believed not in a lifeforce animating their living brains and bodies,
If their severed, frozen heads could be unfrozen and woken up.
I believe they’d have a horror movie on the hands they wouldn’t have,
A spiritless brain, eyes that couldn’t open, a mouth that couldn’t talk,
A comatose head unfit for any kind of body.

Bob Boyd

The Joys of Not Working

Not being controlled
Not having anyone run interference
on what you are achieving
Not essentially held hostage by
the need for a paycheck
Not working at something you
don’t like but must to survive
Not having to take any nonsense
Not needing to do things you’d prefer not to
like needless time wasting meetings
Not being a slave to the clock
Not needing weekend breaks
Not having to put up with the possibility
of a difficult coworker
Not suffering any slights by
an ungrateful boss

Bob Boyd

Love Beyond the Grave

He saw her photo in the news
35 and dead
In an auto accident
Something about her
Captured his heart
A nameless
Undefinable thing
He found the location of her grave
Visited her with flowers
He placed at her grave
Felt compelled to keep visiting her grave
It was an afterlife infatuation
That grew and grew and grew
Two months later she began appearing in his dreams
Every night a dream date
Now he knows for sure
He’ll be with her when he dies

Bob Boyd

Ice Cream

Out of all the ice cream flavor choices
I’m trying to think of my favorite one
Is it Vanilla Chocolate Almond
Or Moose Tracks
Or Peanut Butter Cup
Or Cookies n Cream
No
None of them will do
Let me think
A little more
Tap into my
Presently bankrupt
Taste memory banks
Ah ha!
I got it here we go
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Bob Boyd

When Bible Reading Was Dangerous

Imagine when people were persecuted for reading Bibles.
Imagine before that when only the elite priests could read
Biblical truths and teaching, psalms, proverbs, and more.
Some of the non-Catholic Bible Readers burned at the stake.
Protestant martyrs, each one hunted down and murdered.
William Tyndaly translated the Bible into English
And was strangled and burned at the stake.
In 1401 Oxford professors burned at the stake too,
Their crime, translating the Bible into English.
I often wish the Lord above could have intervened
And saved the thousands upon thousands tortured and killed
By those that perverted Christianity and the Catholic Religion
Thank God those days are gone now.

Bob Boyd