Day: November 4, 2025

I think it’s possible
civilizations like ours
or even more advanced,
were on this planet before

in the 4.54 billion years
earth has been in existence

those dead civilizations
buried deep within the earth

hidden and unfound
so far

another theory or reality
maybe Shiva’s dance is factual

the cosmos
created
sustained
dissolved
in unnumbered cycles
again and again ad infinitum

civilizations far more advanced
than ours, human, alien, hybrids
dissolved, gone forever

creations birthed
sustained
dissolved
Shiva’s dance over and over
eternally.

Bob Boyd

I’ve heard people claim they’re vampires
on YouTube and in documentaries

they’re not the fictional creatures of the night
they’re just sick humans who find human hosts

to donate their blood to them to drink
but not enough to harm the hosts

the fake vampires drink it, claim empowered,
but not with any vampiric, paranormal abilities

just like the unreal, fictional vampires
they are make believe too

they’d be better off with counseling
to heal their vampire personality disorders.

Bob Boyd

They’re not the walking dead
they’re not the undead
they’re the ant zombies
you probably think I’m kidding
and I love to kid around
but this time I’m not kidding
ant zombies are real
a zombie-ant fungus
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
zombitizes carpenter ants
it infects the ants, gets inside
them and controls them
eventually it forces the ant
to crawl up a small plant
sink its mandibles into it
and locks it in till it dies
but at least the infection
doesn’t create a hellish
zombie ant apocalypse
intent on killing off the
entire insect world.

Bob Boyd

Unidentifiable dead bodies fished out of the Seine
and scooped off streets of Paris

put on display behind windows on tilted, marble slabs
their clothes hung next to their bodies

became public viewing at a morgue named La Morgue
at first to try to identify the nameless corpses

eventually free entertainment for the masses
sometimes as many as 40,000 visitors a day

gawking at the dead bodies of men, women
and children

vendors hawked goods outside the morgue
that had a greater attendance than theaters

visiting La morgue became a social event
to see and be seen at

open seven days a week from dawn to 6pm
locals and tourists attended in droves

a ghoulish good time for every one of them
parents even brought their children

who would ever have imagined
rubbernecking the decaying dead

would become popular entertainment
at a Paris morgue in the 1800s.

Bob Boyd