Day: March 13, 2025

hiking in yosemite
national park
josh and his girlfriend
she was behind him
a mile into the hike
past a noisy waterfall
he turned around
to talk to her
she was gone
he called her
but she didn’t
answer him
he notified the rangers
who led a search
with trackers and dogs
and a hundred volunteers
they scoured the forest
for many weeks
the trackers didn’t find
her tracks
the dogs didn’t
pick up her scent
she was never found
twenty years later
she is still 411

Bob Boyd

I’d like to buy a pet lizard
but I’d have to feed him live food
like chirping crickets

I just can’t do it
I can’t feed those innocent
little insects to a lizard

I can’t bear the thought of
little, chirping crickets being raised
just to die horrifyingly in a lizard’s belly

Yet, with some sobering reflection,
I see that I’m kind of a hypocrite
who eats chicken everyday

That are only raised
to die horrifyingly and
end up in my belly

Bob Boyd

Anna was a caring and loving wife
before her frontal lobes got damaged
in an awful auto accident

After the frontal lobes damage,
she became uncaring and unloving
and took her husband’s life

Bob Boyd

She hears the death knells
Sounding in her head
She lays down
Falls asleep
And dreams she’s falling
But doesn’t hit the ground
The next morning
The death knells ring louder
She lays down falls asleep
And dreams she’s falling
And almost hits the ground
The next day she sees her doctor
He puts her on Hydralazine
Her blood pressure stabilizes
Her dizziness goes away
And she never dreams
Of falling again

Bob Boyd

Some people always
Play the victim
That must be a hard life
To 24/7 maintain
Day to day and
Year to year
For the rest of one’s
Brief and
Unpredictable
Earthly sojourn
Maybe for them
It’s gratifying
And gives them
Some small
Satisfactions
That gets them
Through their
Tired days and
Troubled nights

Bob Boyd

It seems for many Tik Tok is a great place
to act crazy or make a fool out of themselves
in front of hundreds or thousands
or maybe even millions of viewers.
I don’t understand why many people
are so obsessed with doing this.
Maybe they think it validates them
or gives them a chance to shine
out of the darkness of their discontent.
As for me, I’d rather write poetry on a blog
with few people paying attention to me,
especially if I make a fool out of myself.

Bob Boyd

I saw that a woman just added bug to her pronouns;
sure it’s crazy but it sounded like fun.
I’m not about pronouns. The trend doesn’t interest me,
but I find it amusing to think of describing myself as bug.
And were I about pronouns, particularly exotic ones,
I’d probably like to add one like cryptid or wolverine,
or maybe in mellower moments, I’d go with
something like river or moon.

Bob Boyd