Day: February 15, 2025

She said she saw demons
when she was clinically dead
for about ten minutes that
seemed like a hellish eternity
of tortures and torments
she had called herself a
sex worker before that
came back to life and knew
she’d been a prostitute
she said Jesus saved her
from the demons and hell
gave her a second chance
she became an evangelist
after that and saved souls
when she died at age 77
the angels came and
flew her up to heaven.

Bob Boyd

At age six he wanted to be a cowboy
had a toy holster and a cowboy gun
and a big ten-gallon cowboy hat
watched a ton of cowboy movies
sang all the cowboy songs he heard
wanted to die with his boots on
if he ever had to die in a shootout

when he grew older and discovered
he had a talent for singing songs
he became a country music star
and achieved his cowboy dreams
in that kind of country music way.

Bob Boyd

He used to have a
high paying job
at thirty years of age
had loads of money
to blow on many things
blew it all on alcohol
and on many drugs
got hooked on those
destructive habits
eventually on fentanyl
now he lives and sleeps
on Kensington Avenue
and he hasn’t got long
he’ll die there before
he sees age thirty-five.

Bob Boyd

He gets up each morning
peers out his window
to see what kind of day
he faces all over again
It’s overcast and rainy
and he’s still all alone
since his wife passed on
in an auto accident on
a similar overcast day
He starts his morning
in sadness and despair
with his first can of beer
the first of many, and
he’ll be drunk as usual
in his tears and beer

Bob Boyd