Month: June 2025

Some people seem to thrive on
arguments
word duels on x and elsewhere
I’ve no time
no patience for that
besides arguments
usually amount to nothing
disruptive
wastes of time
as for trolls
the saying
don’t feed the trolls
seems wise
better, if able,
shut them down
delete them if
you control the media
you might indulge
in arguments
as for me
I’ve better things to do
and in the grander
scheme of things
they really have
no relevance

Bob Boyd

seconds
minutes
hours
days
weeks
months
years
lives
everything
all
eventually
gone
forever
sometimes
I feel
I’ve learned
the point of
it all
the TRUTH
from
NDEs
Eastern
Western
philosophies
but
then I
realize
even these
sources
could be
entirely
wrong
as time
and my
time
passes by
and is no
more
it’s all
so fleeting

Bob Boyd

When I was a teenager
I wanted to be a rockstar,
which in retrospect was
a foolish dream for me.

I had no talent for singing
and didn’t have the patience
to learn how to play a
musical instrument.

And unknown to me back
then, I wouldn’t have liked
all the traveling, probably
would have burned out
on it after six months.

And unknown to me back
then, many rockstars have
died young, often from
drug overdoses.

Had I the talent for singing
and the patience to learn
how to play a musical
instrument, I easily could
have been one of them.

Bob Boyd

I’ve been seeing women in dreams again
nearly every night.
Saw them like this when I had cancer,
thought maybe they were there
because I was close to death.
Not sure what it means,
but the dreams are nice.
Maybe I’m close to death again
and they are back to guide me
into the afterlife.
I doubt that I’m close to death.
I feel far too good.
But death has a way of
sneaking up on you and
sometimes taking you out
when you least expect it.

Bob Boyd

First came the missionaries
Then came the plunderers
The soldiers followed
The country fell
Having no military
To defend its land
From a foreign God
And a foreign power

Bob Boyd

beauty though
alluring
is like a mirage
here today
momentarily
gone tomorrow
transitory
never
ever after
fleeting like
this brief
life in the
blink of
eternity

bob boyd

He had been with many women,
not as a womanizer just looking
for the right one.

But despite all those women,
he never found the right one
that would bring him the enduring
love he dreamed of beginning in
his teenage years.

He took solace in the fact that
others never found the right one
either, and even if you do find
the right one, it’s destined to
be temporary in this temporary
world.

Bob Boyd

he was a republican
a follower of trump
she saw him as a
right winger and a
nazi following a hitler
and politically stupid

she was a democrat
voted for biden
he saw her as a
supporter of
open borders
women raped
trying to cross
illegally into
the US
children sex trafficked
by cartels
hundreds missing
in the US
dangerous gang
members let in
tren de aragua
a 12-year-old girl
Jocelyn Nungaray
raped and strangled
to death by
dangerous illegals
from venezuela

because of their different
political affiliations
their love was doomed
and they parted
hating each other

bob boyd

Some people from birth
Fated to be mentally ill
Inherited
Genetic
Where’s the fairness
In that
Despite the unfairness
The affliction
Some are able
To lead great lives
Some famously
Others with more severe
Psychological conditions
Not so
Were I born that way
And suffered with serious
Mental illness
That treatments
And pills
Could barely
Or not alleviate
I’d wonder
Why me
And were my condition
So severe
I could barely function
Even medicated
I can see how
I or most anyone
Could become suicidal
From the
Constant torment
Of it all

Bob Boyd

Saw a video about a man
who befriended a little
jump spider. He even said
it was cute. I was almost
able to agree with him,
but not quite. I just cant
find spiders cute or
even likeable. I see them
as the creepy crawlies,
and I just don’t like them.
Squeamish though I
might have been, I liked
that jump spider less
when I saw it eating
helpless live tiny insects
the man hand fed it.
But that’s just me.

Bob Boyd

Twenty city killer asteroids believed to be 460 feet wide
orbiting near Venus could one day strike earth with
the potential to destroy a largely populated area
on Earth, according to scientists.

Mercifully, this swarm of killer asteroids is not a definite
threat and may never collide with Earth, but it is
a threatening possibility. And one more
threatening possibility of the many that hover over us
in this luck of the draw world.

Bob Boyd

Despairing of her unanswered prayers to God to save her dying husband’s life,
a desperate, at wit’s end, woman calls upon Satan to save his life.

Help arrives almost immediately in the form of a smartly dressed woman who saves her husband’s life.

But as always is the case in tales and movies, dealings with the devil come with consequences.

The once good and kind husband becomes an evil man in a body without a pulse
Miraculously, he doesn’t kill anyone but almost does with the smartly dressed woman’s urgings.

A religious friend saves him with words and prayers and he extracts himself from the evil smartly dressed woman’s tenacious hold on him.

My takeaway from the movie is be wary of dealings with devils or sketchy people.

Bob Boyd

Some people seem addicted to attention.
I’m not saying that’s a bad thing; it’s just
how they are wired.

I’m wired differently. I don’t like a lot of
attention.

I’d be uneasy were I known all over the
Internet like some people have become

often through hard work and successful
self promotion, not easy to do.

Worse, some through scandalous behavior
or posting something that backfired and

got them Internet breaking attention
that mortified them.

I’m happier with being obscure and
unknown in my soul-satisfying seclusion.

Bob Boyd

days fading faster
nights getting shorter
accelerating his life
away

he’s reached a point
where he’s become
indifferent to it all

and if death means
he’ll be obliterated
into nothingness

he’s okay with that
too

Bob Boyd

Had a dream that I had red suede shoes
and a woman liking them.

In the dream, I didn’t know her well,
and I wasn’t really attracted to her.

But she kind of forced her attention on me,
and she wanted to go see a new apartment

I just rented in another city. I started thinking maybe
it would be nice

to be with a woman for a while again; it’s been
a decade since I’ve gone anywhere with one.

But then she began dominating my time, planning
the day with things I didn’t want to do.

And I wasn’t looking forward to spending time with
her, but I agreed to it, so I was obligated.

I woke up and realized that even though it seemed real,
it was all just a dream, and I was so relieved.

Bob Boyd

What a scene from the 1942 movie, Cat People,
when the moment a woman and a man open
the door to a pet store, all the pets go crazy.

Moments earlier, the man had bought the
woman a cat that hissed at her as though
she were a monster, and you knew then
that she was

by the reaction of the cat who gets along
with the man. And when the woman says
cats don’t like her, you knew there was
far more to the cat’s reaction.

You know it even more when she steps into
the pet store to exchange the cat for
another pet and all the animals freak out with fear.

This told me her evil monster wattage was
high voltage, and that she was going to be
the dual persona of pretty woman and
evil cat monster in the movie.

Great scene. Great set up for diabolical things
to come later in the movie. Hats off to whomever
conjured up that frantic, frightful scene.

Bob Boyd

Imagine a fierce dog with three heads
guarding the gates of Hades to prevent
doomed souls from escaping.

An imaginative creation of Greek mythology
that must have literally scared the hell out
of people who believe in Cerberus.

A dangerous dog with one head is scary
enough.

Imagine a snarling pit bull with three heads.
But truth be known, Cerberus seemed
even scarier than that.

Bob Boyd

Maybe the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree is
more predictive of behavior

in many, but not all, people more than known.

Or maybe genetics for the most part has little effect on
the outcome of a person’s behaviors and actions.

I have seen the like father like son in some people,
but, mercifully, I have seen the opposite in many
sons and daughters of evil people.

But if those in whom genetics seems to predispose
them to bad behaviors that result in prison time,
I have to wonder if they are totally responsible
for their antisocial behaviors –

as if they are compelled beyond their control to
to lead self destructive lives and reap the punitive
effects all of their lives.

Bob Boyd

She became addicted to posting tidbits and
pictures of herself on social media

and consumed with seeing all the views
everyday, sometimes every hour.

Her obsession with social media took
over her entire life.

She thought about it day and night
and lived for the views.

Perhaps she had low self esteem
and all the attention was an

attempt to boost it and assuage
her inferior feelings.

Bob Boyd

There are those who believe
aliens are among us

as if somehow they morphed
into looking exactly like us.

I supposed an advanced race
of aliens would have the

technology to replicate our race,
but I just can’t believe it.

Bob Boyd