Day: June 30, 2025

Handsome looks
Charming personality
Disarming smile
Tall and well built
All around nice guy
From a good family
With plenty of money
He had it all
Everybody liked him
Especially women
Had many girlfriends
Despite his advantages
Strangled eight women
And teenage girls
To death from 1974 to 1975
Got his highs from kills
Robert Reldan sentenced to
Life in prison – 1979
A monster born to kill
Died in 2014 in prison

Bob Boyd

Deep sea creatures dead bodies
never float to the surface
of the sea.

They sink to the bottom of the
sea.

The high pressure
the density
the solidity
of the sea
at those depths

keeps its own.

Bob Boyd

He always went hiking alone
despite knowing people
shouldn’t hike alone in case
of an accident or unexpected
dangers.

He didn’t need that kind of
help.
He was freakishly strong,
a seasoned survivalist, and
he always armed himself
with a gun.

Despite his bravado and his
preparedness, he felt an eerie
feeling that day when he
hiked in a forest he was
unfamiliar with.

He experienced something
he’d never experienced before.

The forest became ominously quiet.
No birds sang. No insects hummed.
Darkness spread across the
forest.

Frightened, he reached for his gun.

Too late.

In a millisecond, he was snatched
out of this existence by a
monstrous entity that resembled
a giant praying mantis and
devoured him in an unknown
dimension.

The authorities. The trackers.
The search and rescue dogs. The
hundreds of volunteers. Never
found a trace of him.

Bob Boyd

He worked for a state government
in the USA with the protection of a
union.

And a more annoying person, you
probably could not find.

He abused his union protection
when he had an interview to work
at another city for the state
government, and his future
supervisor was late for the
interview.

He reported her for her tardiness
to the state government’s home
office, not a wise move.

Because of the union rules, she
had to hire him despite seeing him
as an impossible person to have
to supervise or even get along
with.

Things got irreversibly worse.

At the mandatory Friday meetings
he always asked annoying
questions that ticked off the
supervisor and her supervisor.

Eventually he went too far with
his errant behavior, and despite
his union protection, he got fired.

But, damn, he made those boring,
mandatory Friday meetings so
much fun, and myself and the
other state employees always
looked forward to them.

Bob Boyd

She had an itch
that made her
always have to
get herself in
trouble

She couldn’t refrain
her compulsion
to disturb what
could have been a
peaceful life

Over and over
she repeated her
folly

And over and over
she was put in jail

until possibly to end
the itch that wouldn’t
cease

She found a way to
hang herself to death
in a prison cell.

Bob Boyd