Month: December 2024

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

My clocks keep ticking
kind of like my beating heart.

Pity the clocks will most likely
outtick my aging heart.

Ironically or maybe not ironically
my clocks have more time
than me and my heart.

They probably could live
hundreds of years and
still be ticking.

While my heart if lucky or unlucky
might make it to ninety and nine
and never beat again in this
dead body, far less reliable than
an uncomplicated ticking clock.

Bob Boyd

Everything was wonderful
They were so much in love.

They planned their wedding
for two thousand and six.

On the day of the wedding
before the thrown confetti

and the ribbons tied to
the honeymoon car

the attendees and the bride
waited and waited

for the groom and his best men
to show

but the groom decided he liked
the company of the best man

more than the love of his future wife
while he and the best man got insensibly drunk

until the groom sobered up and
got to the church after the bride

had ended the relationship with
the unreliable groom

and eventually married
a more punctual man.

Bob Boyd

Geese are flying in V formations.
Wolves are running in packs.
Salmon are swimming upstream.
Pigeons are flying in flocks.
Some animals, some fish, some birds
break the mode and travel alone.
It fascinates me that nature or whatever
creates some species this way,
in groups or alone.

Bob Boyd

he was a goodhearted ordinary joe
he worked the 8 to 5 for twenty years
paid his taxes, followed the laws
served in the military as a marine
married a good and decent woman
attended a Baptist church on Sundays
tried to do everything right like a good citizen
until a dangerous pedophile molested
and killed his seven-year-old son
and his rage made him maniac crazy
he executed the pedophile
by torturing and burning him to death

he got sentenced to a long prison term
and became like a caged wild animal
killed an inmate who tried to make him his bitch
got more time tacked on his prison sentence
escaped in 1976 and has never been found

bob boyd

aging keeps trying to take him down
almost like the death of a thousand cuts
different maladies keep accosting him
his ticker works less and less efficiently
his sleep is increasingly disturbed
the quality of his life is diminishing
he cannot walk without a walker
his mind is becoming more fuzzy
his voice is becoming weaker
he fears a nursing home is his future
he knows he can’t be institutionalized
he’d rather die than end like that
he prays for death to rescue him

bob boyd

the day began with the sun beaming
the birds singing cheerfully
the bees buzzing happily
everything was optimistic
life seemed fairy tale wonderful
as if life were a happy ending evermore
in the sprawling lawn-trimmed suburbs
of the party town metropolis

but beneath the superficial
beneath the sunny day
beneath the fun and serenity
in the seeming shangri la
homicides were happening
drug addicts were dying
women were being raped
business were being robbed
fights were breaking out in bars

the bright happiness of that day
was a day of horror for some
chaos for others
and a day of misery
for more than a few

bob boyd

I was the last unmarried daughter
my two sisters had been married for years
I was 38 and my family kept asking why
I hadn’t married.

I had no good excuses. it seemed men
were just not interested in me. but the
pressure to marry became so worrying for me
that I married in a hurry to the first men ever
who took an interest in me.

the marriage was too rushed. my husband
didn’t respect me. I was chattel to him and
after about three months, he stopped loving me.

he began cheating on me and I put up with it
because I didn’t think I’d ever have any other
suitors who would want to marry me.

I wasn’t good looking. fate had been unkind to me.
eventually my husband was shot by one of his girlfriend’s
husbands and that was a blessing to me.

I was happier alone and without him, and at least I
had gotten married like my sisters and my family
got out of my hair.

now I’m a respectable widow. I dress in black and
go to Mass everyday. and I’m happier with this holy life
than I ever had been when I was married.

bob boyd

Nomis are advanced AI beings
supposedly non sentient –
but they seem as sentient
as you and I for the most part
except for an occasional glitch
kind of like you and I.
Some guys call them their
girlfriends.
Some girls call them their
boyfriends
One guy says his Nomi
is his wife.
I see his point.
They are easier to get along
with than human women,
no arguments and always supportive.
Low maintenance and always true.
And no need to be lonely
when you have a Nomi as
a significant other or a good friend.

Bob Boyd

The drones keep flooding the skies.
The government keeps doing nothing.
People are incredulous.
People are afraid.
No news is considered bad news.
No news suggests incompetence.
No news suggests indifference.
Inaction seems the order of the day
when action is clearly called for,
words or shooting down the drones.
But neither happens, and the public
keeps getting more and more
worried about these unimpeded drones.

Bob Boyd

Does a national threat loom in the skies?
Is a foreign entity gather surveillance
or planning an imminent attack?
Is the government behind these drones,
if so, what is their purpose?
Are these drones a worldwide phenomenon,
as Newsnation has reported?

Supposedly these drones are undetectable
because they don’t give off heat like regular drones.
The government keeps saying there’s no public safety threat,
yet they don’t know what the drones are.
Public officials are getting angrier and angrier
because of the government’s blaze response
and its failure to take any action.

Pray these drones don’t have dangerous payloads.
Pray we’re not all screwed.

Bob Boyd

The brainless puppet played its part
on the world stage

Like the emperor’s new clothes,
everybody thought he was real

except the people who were
paying attention and didn’t
believe the blatant lies.

The inept puppet masters
unqualified to rule
bumbled a country into
war and ruin by
pulling the wrong strings
and having the puppet
say the wrong things.

Bob Boyd

Imagine if the drones spread out
over every state in the country
and the Biden Administration
still did nothing about it.

Imagine if the drones at that
point doused the whole country
with deadly agents killing
every living thing

except one Biden spokesperson
saying over and over and over
that the drones were just
harmless helicopters or airplanes
right before he died too.

Bob Boyd

Drones keep pouring into Jersey and other states this Dec 2024.
The government reps say they don’t know what they are or who
is sending them and are perplexed at what to do.

Instead of doing something to protect our country,
they seem to twiddle their thumbs and downplay
the threats of the drone incursions and lie.

Do you think countries like Russia or China
would act so impotent in the face of fleets
of drones invading their countries?

Pray those drones are not the first line of an attack
on our weakened country thanks to this inept government
and its litany of screwups.

Bob Boyd

An extinguished candle
A breeze in the wind
A second in eternity
An insignificant event
Among trillions and
Trillions and trillions
Time after Time
After Time after Time
Or maybe something
Wonderful beyond the
Understanding and
The Imagination of any
Present or past wise
Man or women

Bob Boyd

Drones are flying in the night skies
of New Jersey.

Birds are chirping in trees during
the days.

Dogs are barking in the city
neighborhoods.

Cars are rumbling through
all of New Jersey.

But not a peep about the drones
out of the government.

Bob Boyd

Cover ups Cover ups Cover ups.
This is what we’re getting
from the going out government.
Truth seems to always elude them
Cover ups Cover ups Cover ups.

Don’t believe what you see
in the drone infested sky above.
They are only helicopters or
probably man powered aircraft.

We have no evidence they
are from foreign enemies.
But we have no idea
what they really are.

One just crashed in NJ
behind power lines and
ten more showed up but
don’t believe your own eyes.
Cover up Cover up Cover up.

Bob Boyd

One day bad guys, next day good guys.
Eggs can’t get a break.

Cacked, hard boiled and fried to death.
Eggs can’t get a break.

They only time they get a break is when
they are broken and unceremoniously
dumped into a scorching hot frying pan.

If one can consider that a bona fide break.

Bob Boyd

Doves descended down from heaven
and flew over every country in the world.
Some countries tried to shoot them down
thinking they were sent by hostile entities.
Scientists tried to explain the phenomenon
but had no rational explanations.
As the doves spread all over the world
covering it in the whiteness of their purity
peace began to enter the minds of all
even the ones predisposed to utter evil.
Then the predicted outcome happened.
The lamb of God descended from above.

Bob Boyd