Day: May 5, 2025

I’ve come a long way from
when you knew me
loved me and left me
when I was
a confused and screwed
up teenage kid

hanging out in a pool hall
getting kicked out of
high school

I’ve expanded my life and
my mind in ways I don’t
think you could have ever
imagined

In ways I never could
have imagined

I’ve exceeded what my
high school teachers
thought was a doomed
future for me

I’ve gained wisdom from
the East and the West
and seen the Inner Light

Despite those boasts
sometimes I wonder how
your life went

and if you became the
nurse you wanted to
be

and if you’re still living
and breathing upon
this planet

or dead and buried in
the cold dark ground

I doubt we’ll meet in
the afterlife as soul
friends

but it might be cool
if we did

Bob Boyd

I look in the mirror today
and see my hair that I’ve
been combing and
brushing back for couple
of weeks and letting
air dry

I’m surprised at 80
that I still have a full
head of hair with no
balding

I’m more surprised
at how bizarre it looks
like Christopher Walken’s
hair style way too high in
the front

I always wear a hat
when I go out
so it doesn’t matter
when I’m in public

but I don’t like my
hair looking freakish
long on top

It’s not like I’m
back in the greaser
60s

I’ll have to cut it
soon

I’ve been cutting
my hair successfully
for 40 years

When I was living
in Vermont 40 years ago
I saw a book in a library
there with instructions
for cutting your own
hair

I said to myself then
that I could do that
Fortunately I was right
and I’ve been cutting
my hair for 40
years

and people I worked
with were always
surprised at how
good it looked
for self cut hair

But I kind of
don’t feel like
cutting it yet

Besides, I live
alone and no one
is going to see my
top heavy hair so
to borrow from a
song in the sixties
I guess I’ll just
let my freak flag fly
for awhile.

Bob Boyd

you haven’t lived
until you’ve
had even a taste
of a slice of
bigfoot’s primo pizza

no lie
that’s what
I’m talking
about

a single bite
and you’ll feel
as close to heaven
as a mortal can get

you’ll feel as
enlightened and
blissed out
as sage who
became imbued
with cosmic
ecstasy
and nirvanic
liberation

when he learned
the mysteries
of the universe
on the back of
a double bubble
gum wrapper

no lie
that’s what
I’m talking
about
kemosabe

bob boyd

I once heard a saying
the saddest words
there ever were are
it might have been.
you don’t know this
but that is us.
just because
you’d been hurt
you let the love
we could have had
fade away and
never become
what could have been,
what should have been
the greatest love of
our lives.

Bob Boyd

I love witty women
I love brainy women too
if I had to choose between
them I don’t know what I’d do
a witty woman would always
be fun
a brainy woman would always
be fascinating
and the part of a woman I like
the best is her brain
that contains all that she is
all her wonders and her ways
her charms and her mysteries
that her face and her body
no matter how beautiful
are nothing without
but if I had to choose
between witty and brainy
I suppose I’d choose
witty and smart
or brainy and funny
and I’m wondering what the
hell am I an old man
doing foolishly thinking
about such things

bob boyd

No way Jose I said to myself upon
hearing that insult on TV decades ago.
Charles Bronson had cool unique looks
that made him ruggedly good looking.
And when danger was approaching,
like threatening storm clouds overhead,
and people were about to get murdered,
you could always count on Charles Bronson
to take care of business and never back down.
Even when you couldn’t count on the Law
to do the right thing and jail evil murderers,
you could always count on Charles Bronson
to bring some real justice into the world
courageously facing the wicked murderers
and sending their bullet ridden bodies to hell.

Bob Boyd