Day: July 29, 2025

A wizened sage I met in Sedona, Ca.
Told me I could learn the mysteries of the universe
On the back of a bubble gum wrapper.
A skeptic, I guffawed. He smiled an indulgent smile
And handed me a neatly wrapped piece of
Double Bubble Cosmic Gum. I said, this is it?

He smiled and said open it and read it.
I opened it and saw nothing on the back of the wrapper
Until telepathically the words and the wisdom
Lit up my previously unbelieving mind, and I saw it all.

Then the sage told me to eat the gum
I did but after the first chew all the wisdom
Was erased from my mind, and the sage vanished
And I wondered if it had been only a dream.

But when I got back to Greensboro, NC, the
Bubble gum wrapper was still in my pants pocket
I tried to read it but it was just a bubble gum wrapper
With no wisdom left inside of it.
But I saw it all in a dream that night and woke
Up one with the universe, cosmically conscious.

Bob Boyd

It sounds terrifying to think of dying
and that being the end of you.
Even the thought of the obliteration,
that finality, is a terrifying prospect.
No more you. No more experiences.
All of you gone permanently forever.
But if I die and there is nothing, I am
in a place where I am good with it.
No more suffering. No more pain.
No more heartaches. No more
annoyances. No more diseases.
Just an end to all the tribulations
and the potential horrors in this life.

Bob Boyd

He set his toy boat into the stream.
It flowed faster than he thought it would.
He tried to catch it but he couldn’t.
Soon it was out of his sight.
And he didn’t know where it went.
It flowed and flowed and flowed.
from the stream to the river to the
ocean it flowed and flowed and flowed.
That little toy boat somehow made
its way past sharks and other big fish
that could have chomped it to bits.
And it found its way into the hands
of a happy little boy in China.

Bob Boyd

So many alleged sightings of cryptids
all over the USA and the world.
Could all these people claiming the
sightings be mistaken or liars?
Yet there seems to be no proof
any of these cryptids exist?
Thus they are reduced to urban
legends and conspiracy theories.
But imagine if they were all real,
and the reason no proof was
found is because they are all
elusively interdimensional.

Bob Boyd