Month: September 2024

He sits in jail wondering how he and his country
came to this.

For a mere tweet criticizing his heavy-handed government,
the police knocked on his door and carted him to jail.

He never thought his beloved country would become
a totalitarian nightmare state.

He never thought living in a proposed new world order
would get him ordered to jail.

Yet there he sits silenced in a soul-stifling cell
as if he were a dangerous criminal.

He vows when he gets out to begin a fight
against the injustices of the oppressors.

And he takes solace in knowing
a revolution is brewing.

Bob Boyd

I’m a celebrity
More important than you
I know better than you
What’s best for you
Because I think
I’m better than
Peon you and
Have the right
To lecture you
About things
I know little
or nothing about

Bob Boyd

He pined for fame all his life
He wanted it more than a wife
He began acting in grade school
Starred in high school plays
Voted best likely to succeed
In his high school yearbook
Took acting class after that
Got his first break a year later
A bit part in an action movie
Got recognized for his role
Began getting bigger roles
Eventually became a star
And won an award
All uphill from there
Fame achieved
A high for a while until
His stardom began to dim
And the fame became empty
And he got depressed and
Bored and drank too much
And started hating his life
Until he found a good wife

Bob Boyd

No matter how important you are
Or how important you think you are
Just like me and everyone else
You will be brought down
You will be extinguished
And in time
You will be forgotten
With more time
You will fade into insignificance
Just like me and everyone else

Bob Boyd

I was making it before the Great Depression hit,
Living the American Dream, buying stocks.
Then I lost everything and felt so disgraced
When like everyone else I stood in line
For bread and soup
And nearly starved to death.
When like everyone else I lived in a shanty
In Hooverville and nearly froze to death.
When like everyone else I couldn’t find a job
And got so damn depressed
That one day I just couldn’t go on,
Living in rags like a goddamn bum,
Unable to support myself,
Unable to afford a decent meal.
I gave up on living my lousy life
And shot myself to death.

Bob Boyd

Hateful people have no shame
They lie about people
Anything to defame
They gin up their rhetoric
To try to take a person down
They have no concerns
About their verbal venom
In their evil hearts they pine
For that person’s decline
For that person’s death

Bob Boyd

Recently Trump almost gets shot to death by an assassin
After which MSNBC says he should tone down the rhetoric
After years of demonizing him, some calling him Hitler
And claiming he would shut down democracy if elected
Unwittingly exposing their victim blaming and hypocrisy

Bob Boyd

Daughter of Satan, Saint of Christ,
One day like a demon, next day like a saint.
One day sweeter than any other woman.
Next day meaner than all of them.
A crazed woman of conflicting contrasts
When she intentionally went off her meds.

Bob Boyd

Timeless Eternity

The days, months and years kept racing by
Faster and faster and faster, no let up.
Sixty one year seventy the next, it seemed.
More and more people dying in that rapidity.
More and more friends falling away in the rush.
Time in an advancing full throttle mode
Sped him to his death bed at a age eighty five
When he died he saw that time finally stopped
In the timeless eternity of his afterlife.

Bob Boyd

They knew it was the real thing,
That summer’s night they met.
They had a wonderful romance,
Got married in a Baptist church.
Had a glorious honeymoon,
Sailed the sea on a cruise ship.
Spent five years together
Until all the glitter wore off.
Got bored with each other –
Began to hate each other –
And got divorced.
Why does love often
Have to be like that?

Bob Boyd