annoying people

some people seem born
to be annoying
for example
I’ve often heard the
expression
there’s always an asshole
in the workplace
and in my experience
that’s often been true
mercifully
you usually don’t have
to endure annoying
people in your private life
where you can avoid
them
unless you unwittingly
married one or one
with annoying in laws
but imagine if you
didn’t live a good
enough life to rate
being in heaven
and were cast
into a hell where
you’d have to endure
annoying people
forever

bob boyd

he didn’t see himself as a monster

he considered himself a good man
who just wanted his wife to follow
his rules

as he tightened the screws more
and more on her freedom
compressing her life

tired of years of his controlling
behavior

she left him for another man

he tried to force her to come
back to him

he pestered her for days
until he became completely
unhinged and bought a
gun to end her with

he staked her to a grocery
store and when she came
out of the store the sound
of gunshots boomed in
the street

he fell dead on the pavement
blood seeping out of his head

anticipating he was going
to kill her

she had bought a gun too
and like a gunslinger in
the old wild west

she was quicker on the draw

bob boyd