Day: June 16, 2025

Upon being arrested
a woman said she was
too hot for jail.

In theory she was right.
She did look too hot to
be confined.

Her looks probably granted
her privileges elsewhere that
less hot women didn’t have.

But, sadly, her actions
cancelled out any privileges
her hotness could have afforded
her.

Sadder still is a woman with her
advantageous looks got herself
into a bad situation

and thought her looks protected
her from the penalties that apply
equally to us all.

Bob Boyd

Paranoid about the rising crime,
perhaps justifiable so,
she bought a handgun.

By mistake, she cut a guy off in
traffic and felt it was his fault
that they almost had an accident.

She jammed on her brakes, got enraged,
started screaming and swearing at the guy
who at first remained calm.

But after her long tirade of swears
and insults, the guy got pissed and
got out of his car to confront her.

To shut him up, she pulled out her gun.
But, enraged, he kept walking toward
her car to tell her off.

She panicked and shot him, blowing her
chances for a self defense plea after
she was arrested.

When she was convicted of murder
in court and sent to jail, she bemoaned
she let anger control her

and took a life because of it. And with
a long prison sentence, lost her freedom
for most of her life.

Bob Boyd

Songbirds, such as sparrows, don’t have
much of a chance to live long lives.
Predators kill 70 percent of them
before they reach old age.

How I hated to read about that.
Sweet singing little birds’ lives snuffed out,
always having to worry about being killed.
Awful way to have to live.

How I hate that part of nature.
How I wonder why a Creator set things
up like that.

If I didn’t believe in a benevolent God
it would be easier to accept the tragic
deaths of little singing birds.
Though I wouldn’t like it, I’d reason
that’s just the way it is.

But it saddens me that those little birds
don’t have much of a chance in life.
And always have to be fearful that
a lurking predator is going to end
them forever.

And I hate how there is so much
carnage in nature.

Bob Boyd

Once I saw an actress on a TV show
who said she wasn’t a joiner.
I identified with that. I’m not a joiner
either, never been a follower either.
I was always okay functioning as a
team in a work environment, but
to me that wasn’t being a follower.
In some ways not being a follower
or a joiner may be a weakness. In
other ways it may be a strength.

Bob Boyd