Day: December 18, 2024

He liked to watch girly porno films
in a booth in Boston’s Combat Zone.

He relished seeing the naked women
undressing and doing erotic things.

Couples doing erotic things
were an even better treat for him.

He liked to get drunk and
smoke Lucky Strike cigarettes

while see the sexual gyrations
of the many naked women.

His lusting voyeurism led to
his fiery demise one dark day

when he passed out drunk
with a cigarette in his hand.

And the booth he sat in
rapidly went up in flames

And his life ended watching porn
in the seedy Combat Zone.

Bob Boyd

He met a beautiful woman on a dating app,
the most beautiful woman he ever saw.

She looked as good in person as in her photo
when they met for a date.

He took her to one of the nicest restaurants in his city,
but she complained it wasn’t good enough.

She flirted with the waiter in front of him
and bad-mouthed the waiter when he didn’t reciprocate.

He said to her, “I can’t believe you’re acting like this.”
She said, “That’s the way I am.”

Then that most beautiful woman he ever saw
became one of the ugliest women in the world,

and his date turned into an abysmal nightmare
that he couldn’t wait to escape from.

And he never saw that most beautiful face again
that masked a repulsive person.

Bob Boyd

She saw the hot air balloons in the sky
and counted a baker’s dozen of them.
She counted in baker’s dozens
because she really was a baker
who baked breads and pastries
starting at 4 am every single day.

Between rolling dough and
stuffing breads and pastries,
she dreamed of marrying a
rich man and traveling to an
exotic country in an air balloon
and having an exciting life
like the lives people had in movies,
instead of baking breads and pastries
starting at 4 am every single day.

Bob Boyd

Maybe they’re trouble
an embarrassment
a disappointment
and maybe a disgrace
but you have to admit
they add some drama
to what may be some
necessary turmoil in
otherwise dull lives.

Bob Boyd