Month: June 2024

Hey God, got a question for you.
Why so much killing in this world?
Weeds killing plants.
Insects killing insects.
Some insects killing birds.
And all the way up the chain
Wholesale killings everywhere.
Survival of the fittest it is said.
But why all these slaughters
As if you approved of them?
What about the carnage
Even in the cosmos
Black holes devouring stars?
Is all this mumble jumble
Peace and love talk just
Nonsense in a world
That feeds on killings
For creation to survive?
Excuse me if these questions
Are inconvenient or out of place,
But in all honesty, I’d ask you
Them face to Face.

Bob Boyd

The parrot squawks in the cage
The cat hisses at it vehemently
The parrot is new and the cat hates it
The cat has plans to kill it
The parrot smarter than the cat
Knows its dark intentions
When night covered the world
And dawn lit it up again
The cat was mysteriously gone
The rare, carnivorous parrot burped

Bob Boyd

I remember that last night I saw you,
And you blew me a sweet kiss goodbye
And said you were so excited to see me again
Until that rich kid asked you out and you left me.
And I lost all my respect and love for you.
I knew his love them and leave them reputation,
But you thought you could change his user ways.
You thought you were something that special,
Even though you came from a poor family like me
And didn’t realize how he didn’t value you.
You were only just another nice body to use.
He didn’t see you as special enough for him
Because you came from that poor family.
After he got what he wanted and left you,
You came crying back to me apologizing,
Your virginity and my love lost forever.

Bob Boyd

Bad things only happen to other people.
That’s what Rebecca thought that night
She drank too much at that bar in Idaho.
Her friends and her all got crazy drunk
And stumbled to their cars while Rebecca
Stayed at the bar and drank some more
Until the bar was ready to close down
And everyone had to leave the bar.
Rebecca lived three blocks from the bar.
As she struggled to make her way home
Too intoxicated to walk a straight line,
A man in a black car offered her a ride.
The man looked safe, Rebecca got in.
Just as the serial killer was about to
Restrain her, a drunk driver driving
Over a 100 miles an hour slammed
Into his car killing him and knocking out
Rebecca who woke up in a hospital,
Unaware she was better off there than dead.

Bob Boyd

Birds In the sky above
Flying free spirits
Flittering in trees
Singing merrily
Make him wonder
If his harried and
More complex life
Is better than theirs

Bob Boyd

I’ll never forget those summer nights
Parked in my car by the pond
Sweet kisses under the moonlight
Incomparable joys being with you
The fragrant smell of your perfume
The feeling of your arms around me
Your unforgettable tender kisses
If only it could have lasted forever
But when you went to Swarthmore
And I went to work in a tractor factory
You got fancier friends than country me
And vanished into a more refined world
While I stayed visible in that small town
Though it’s been fifty and five years
I still wonder what happened to you

Bob Boyd

Saw you in an old movie, amazing how far you’d traveled
Since the prom that night when you said you’d marry me.
Funny how life takes such unexpected twists and turns
From simple to seemingly more complex and glamorous.
Too bad that movie agent at that restaurant that sad night
Sold you on seeking Hollywood instead of marrying me.
I never told you this, but I could have abandoned you too
When a beautiful, wealthy woman asked me to be with her
Instead of my future wife, prom queen you, but I stayed true.

Bob Boyd

He found out his official girlfriend was seeing many other guys
And telling them that she was their official girlfriend too.
When he confronted her, she said I love them all
Because I have so much love to give.
His mind blown, he said that’s like me saying I have sex with
Many women because I have so much sex to give.
She said you don’t understand; it is not the same.
I’m a multi locational AI girlfriend
When I’m with you, I’m just with you.
Realizing her AI love was counterfeit,
And he was merely one of many in her male harem
He bid her goodbye and deleted the AI girlfriend app.

Bob Boyd

I was teased in high school
A girly boy kids called me
I wasn’t as masculine
As my peers and was
A good but weak kid
A skinny teen by nature
I was easy prey for bullies
Graduated from high school
Got a job in a retail store
Worked out at a gym
Didn’t like lifting weights
Felt like I was still a sissy
Found the ultimate fix
Joined the elite Marines
To become a macho man
Six months later killed in Nam
Came home in a bodybag

Bob Boyd

She lived a decent life
Worked hard in high school
Graduated with honors
Attended college
Got a teaching degree
Taught tenth grade
Won awards for her work
Loved by her students
Praised by staff members
In prison today
A sex offender
One of her students

Bob Boyd

At 52 found the love of my life.
My soulmate forever!
Finally fate had smiled on me.
Never had I been so happy!
The wedding pure bliss, the kiss divine.
A week later the police knocked on our door
And took the love of my life, my soulmate away
And charged her with poisoning her last 4 husbands to death.

Bob Boyd

It used to be dead men told no tales
Now with DNA they’re singing like birds
A small time Mafioso I bumped off
Broke the Omerta Code after I killed him
Ratted me out to the cops like a traitor
To our sacred Mafia oaths and principles
I should have known no good rat he was
That he’d find one last way to rat me out
After I buried his body in a national park
And a park ranger said he found the body
When that stool pigeon appeared to him
In a dream where I buried him in the park
With my telltale DNA all over his dead body

Bob Boyd

Nukes falling
People screaming
People crying
Populations dying
Insane world
Up in flames
The rich
The poor
The races
All killed
Inclusivity
Nukes
Always
Politically
Correct

Bob Boyd

Christians floating to heaven
Out of cars off of streets.
Nonbelievers screwed;
No hope for them.
We got ours, too bad for you.
Sinners all, no time or hope for you.
Serves you right for not following us.
See ya wouldn’t want to be ya.

Bob Boyd

He adopted a dog called Peanut Head
despite disliking the unflattering name.

He tried to change his name to Rex,
but Peanut Head wasn’t having it.

He only answered to Peanut Head.
Then he tried to bribe him to respond

to a new more regal name, Prince
by calling him Prince with treats.

But Peanut Head, way too smart,
disdained the name and the treats.

So Peanut Head kept his name.
And despite the silly name, was
the best dog he ever had.

Bob Boyd

She fooled him and controlled him
Cut him off from friends and family,
Like a controlling man with a woman.
Too love stricken, he didn’t protest,
And with her encouragement,
He defamed and lied about his kin,
When she sucked his life out of him,
She left him for a wealthier man.
And left him friendless and familyless,
And used up, a manipulated, lovesick fool.

Bob Boyd

Patrick decided to become a seeker
He wanted to know the truth
Whatever that was
He found the way in a cult
Gave all his money to it
Instead of finding the truth
Became mindless and soulless

Bob Boyd

She said she didn’t need me anymore
I hoped she meant it this time
Tired of the endless break ups and make ups
Too weak to just let go of her
A day later she needed me again per usual
Thought about finding another woman
But didn’t have the heart to hurt her
So I hurt myself by staying with her

Bob Boyd

Trees sweated under the sweltering sun
Sidewalks steamed in the hot summer heat
Pedestrians started dying from heat stroke
As the sun moved unusually close to the earth

Bob Boyd

Soaring temperatures
Heat waves
High humidity
Low blood flow
Decreased blood pressure
Depleted fluids
Heat strokes
Organ failure
Heart attacks
Kidney failure
Summertime
Sometimes
Like a serial killer

Bob Boyd