Month: February 2025

O England how far you have fallen
from the great empire you used to be.
And what happened to your Christianity
when a man can be arrested
on the streets of England for praying?

Adam Smith-Connor, a patriotic man who served
for twenty years in England’s National Guard,
including a tour in the Afghanistan war zone,
was arrested for a brief silent prayer outside
an Abortion Clinic where he prayed for an
aborted son, an abortion he regretted
having been okay with over twenty years ago.

He was sentenced to an $11,000+ fine
and will be sent to prison if God forbid
he prays near an Abortion Clinic again
or does anything else deemed an offense,
like, for example, posting critical tweet
that British police will come to your house
and arrest you for.

I love the English people. I’m part English myself,
but I hate what their totalitarian government
is doing to them – and good English people
be careful of what you tweet.

Bob Boyd

Consider this a public service
in case you have to deal with vampires.

I learned a revelation from
watching a vampire movie today:
that a silver bullet not only
dispatches snarling werewolves
but those of the vampiric persuasion
as well.

I learned, to my surprise, that hawthorn
is highly effective as a deterrent,
and if you strike or stick a vampire
with a branch or even a twig, it renders
the creature of the night helpless enough
to effortlessly drive anything resembling
a stake through its evil heart
or to escape from it.

Of course, the old standbys still work:
crosses, regular or with Jesus on them.

Garlic around doors and windows
and on your person.

Some say crystals and charms
work too, but I wouldn’t bet
your unvampirized soul on it.

Better to stick with the tried and true.

Bob Boyd

I hate the monkey see monkey do
of people who parrot the latest sayings
and the latest words or phrases:
echo chamber, disingenuous, FAFO, et cetera.
I’m way better than being a mindless parrot,
but you do you.

Bob Boyd

I went to Walmart last night for the first time
in over a decade.

Upon entering the automatically opening doors,
the store ambience felt oppressive to me.

It all seemed too phony to me and I hated
how overcrowded it was.

It hearkened back to decades ago when
I heard groceries cost less at Walmart.

I went there with the prudent idea of
saving a lot of money

I filled my grocery cart with ten or twelve items
and rolled my cart to the cash registers lanes.

They had twenty or more of them with
only three open.

At those three the lines was at least
twelve people deep.

I got so exasperated at those long
and slow moving lanes

I said screw this and got out of
the lane I was in

and rolled my shopping cart and the items
back to where I had put the items in the cart.

I put the items back on the shelves
and never shopped for groceries

at Walmart again.

Tonight I had the same feeling
and walked out the automatically opening doors

without buying anything.

And I’ll never set foot in
a Walmart store again.

Bob Boyd

She was 25 or so
and sitting in the cancer ward.

No telling if the cancer she had
was going to kill her.

Imagine being in your twenties
and having cancer
and in the back of your mind
having to wonder
if you were going to live or die.

I heard her tell an older woman
that she had a new boyfriend.

I hoped to God she was going
to live long enough
for that relationship to blossom.

Bob Boyd

She looks in the mirror at 70 years of age
and sees a woman much younger there
that it pleases her to see.

It’s as if she has near eternal beauty that
even the years cannot entirely erase.

But when she sees a photo of herself
it disappoints her to see an old graying woman
with wrinkles, lines and age spots on her face.

She finds the illusion of her youthful mirror beauty
as mysterious as how time that used to
practically stand still when she was young
races by faster and faster now that she is older
and worryingly closer to the grave.

Bob Boyd

The betta swims around
in his ten gallon water home

sometimes he passes hidden
times in his betta cave
until he swims to the surface
for some needed oxygen

sometimes he blows bubbles
on the surface of the water
at the top of the aquarium

supposedly he’s making a nest
for the birth of a baby betta
despite not having a love

supposedly you can’t keep a
love with him because
like deadly human spouses
one will kill the other

maybe when he blows the bubbles
he’s dreaming of a betta soulmate
and what could have been
if he didn’t have such a
bad temperament and preferred
to be a solitary fish.

Maybe he’s not much different
from loveless humans dreaming
and wishing they had a love.

Bob Boyd

Though her looks faded
with the ruinations of time
she remained beautiful
on her glorious inside

and it gave her a glow
more beautiful than
her lost youthful looks

the glow was even
greater on the day she
died with a smile on
her ever lovely face.

Bob Boyd

Any fool can ask directions.
Any weak-minded weakling
can cave in and like a lost sissy
compromise his manhood
by embarrassingly admitting
he’s lost and needs directions.

Can you imagine Rocky ever
weakly asking directions,
as if his mega masculinity
had been emasculated?

Imagine seeing the Terminator
meekly asking directions
as if his testosterone was in
the tank and he lost his
gargantuan cajones.

It takes a real man to man up
and keep his testosterone
intact, to refuse to sacrifice
his manhood by weakly and
meekly asking for directions.

Better and more manly to
drive around lost for hours
than to succumb to being
a girly man and asking
for directions like a woman.

Bob Boyd

We live in a world of spinning planets
like an infinite sea of spinning tops,
spinning tops that never stop.

God must be like a magician who
singularly keeps all these tops spinning
and spinning and spinning and spinning.

And I wonder how vast is the unobservable universe
and how many spinning planets inhabit it
and if anybody, no matter how smart,
really knows anything about it.

Bob Boyd

They followed their political party like lemmings,
that derided patriotism, ruined our country.
They didn’t care about the evil it had done.
Some didn’t realize they supported the evil.
They were made politically stupid by the MSM,
spoon-fed fake news and blatant lies daily,
oblivious to what was really going on in the world,
oblivious to the fall of a once great republic.
Thank God the infamy has ended, and the
republic is being restored to its patriotic glory.

Bob Boyd

A guy in New Jersey named Chris
at the great age of twenty-six
has spent $4,000 on his collection
of creepy dolls starting at age
sixteen when he became obsessed.

Some could say he has a creepy hobby
that he’s blown thousands of dollars on.
I say why not if it makes him happy.

And though I’m not into creepy dolls
or any other kind of dolls,
not even the celebrated Barbie,
I’d like to see Chris’s collection.
I’d like to see just how creepy
some of his creepy dolls are.

Bob Boyd

Throw those faceless young men
into a pointless war
and see what happens
with our flesh and blood
experiment.

It’s really all a game to see if
we can change a little country’s
politics to one more palatable to us.

And so what if we lose thousands
to young and horrible deaths,
they’re just faceless and
inconsequential to us
and entirely expendable.

Bob Boyd

She always dressed so nicely
when she was young and free
and had a beautiful figure
and a prettier than average face.

After she got married, she
no longer dressed as nicely
and put on 40lbs of weight
and lost her looks.

Her husband who looked happy
when they first got married
walked around looking so sad.

I could see their marriage
had its obvious death knell
and wasn’t surprised when
he left her for a woman who
dressed nicely and had
a beautiful figure and
a prettier than average face.

Bob Boyd

I remember a book about plants
and their so-called secret lives.
I wondered what secrets they
had. Any indiscretions or lies?
Any rebels or saints among
them? Do some lead criminal
lives stealing or killing other
plants? Besides silently talking
to one another, what other
secrets do they hide within
their quiet petals. And do they
have an overlord in the sky
that they fervently pray to
and ask for forgiveness too?
I guess I should read that
old book of secrets and see.

Bob Boyd

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

A thousand faceless people
die everyday

You never knew them
they never knew you

A thousand more will
die tomorrow

Maybe one of them
will be you

Just another faceless
person

Few ever knew
and millions won’t
give a damn about

Bob Boyd