Day: May 3, 2024

A hard-bitten bar fighter,
He got old and began losing fights,
A hardcore street thug,
His last fight left him
Clinically dead on a city street.
He felt his soul leave his body
And descend to Hell.
He saw demons and the pit.
He screamed and screamed,
As the doctors brought
His body back to life.
He swore he’d change
Got religion, became a preacher,
Died with a Bible in his hand
And escaped the fires of Hell.

Bob Boyd

Chad was a cocky lad who took a dare.
He had to descend in a cage in shark waters,
But the dare wasn’t much of a dare.
The steel barred cage was impenetrable.
No shark ever busted into it after many tries.
Chad knew he had the odds of a casino,
A sure win and massive bragging rights.
When Chad got suited up with air tanks
The cage was lowered into the sea.
As if on cue, a shark rushed the cage
And banged against it over and over.
Chad laughed at it and gave it the finger.
The shark backed off and swam away.
But returned with a posse of six sharks
That banged the cage with extreme force
Until the cage broke and the last of Chad
Was a one way trip in a shark’s jaws
To the bottom of a deep dark sea.

Bob Boyd

I should have gotten to know Joanna better
Before falling in love with her so soon
I proposed to her a week after we met
I thought I’d finally found my wife for life
We had everything in common
We liked the same foods
The same movies and books
We had the same values and tastes
My brother said it’s too perfect
Something just isn’t right
Paid no more attention to him
Than to someone reading tea leaves
You’re jealous I said laughing

We honeymooned in the mountains
Scenic, pristine, idyllic, peaceful, perfect
On a hike through the forest
We came to a steep cliff
Overlooking a raging river
Joanna went bravely to the scary edge
And said Look at that down there
What I said, moving closer to the edge
Joanna stepped back and charged at me
Intending to push me off the cliff
By luck, I turned out of the way
And Joanna hands outstretched
Tumbled off the cliff into
the air screaming her arms flapping
like a bird who forgot how to fly
Her body struck the river and
Went under never coming up

I stood shocked and stunned
My wife for life had tried to kill me
Later I learned she had escaped
From an asylum for the insane
But it may not be over
Joanna might still be alive
Her body was never found
Sometimes I wake up at night
Frightened and sweating
Thinking Joanna has come
To try to kill me again.

Bob Boyd

The Moon darkened
The forest stilled
Trees shivered
Bears scattered
The wind moaned
His pulse quickened
His heart pounded
Paralyzed with horror
He remembered the saying
Be careful what you wish for
When he saw Dogman
Emerge from the darkness
Days later searchers
Found his bloody remains
In ripped apart pieces

Bob Boyd