Day: February 6, 2025

He so tired of women
only after his money,
that he lost all respect
for women in general.

He mistakenly stereotyped
even women who
were not gold diggers,

but he was too disappointed
in the avaricious ones
whose love was commercial
to see through his untrue bias.

But after some reflection
he saw how he let his
bad experiences with
fake women and false loves
skewer his opinion
about all women and
that some had to be good.

So he came up with a plan
to find a woman who
would love him for him.

Like he’d seen in a old movie
he pretended to be poor
with inexpensive clothes
and an old beat up car.

Eventually after many rejections,
he met a sweet, saintly woman
who loved him more and truer
than all his discarded gold diggers.

Bob Boyd

His poetry was sometimes too gritty.
Some women said he was a sexist,
called women whores and used them,
but he made up for it in moments of
compassion and caring for women
and a cat with a broken back.

Perhaps he was like most of us
with positives and negatives in
our personal makeup, in our
hidden imperfect selves,
except he was more forthright
and reckless by acting on them.

Bob Boyd

He’d been a shill for a biased news station
for many years.

He didn’t agree with the fake news he
spewed daily on TV,
but the pay was too good to
follow his conscience.

Then he woke up one morning
and felt like he’d sold
his soul to the devil.

His conscience erupted.
He realized he’d been
as fake as the news
he reported
for over 20 years.

He got dressed,
went to work, took
the elevator to the top
of the skyscraper
that his news station
was located in.

And like a bomb dropped
from a plane,
he jumped off
the building and
all that was left of him
were his splattered remains
on the cold city street below.

Bob Boyd