Day: November 12, 2025

On a YouTube video about Newcastle, England
a young man is arguing with the police in the streets

I can see he’s close to getting arrested and thrown in jail
for his arguing and hassling the police

a pretty young woman
presumably his girlfriend

puts her hands gently on his shoulders
and softly implores him to cease

his foolish, stubborn behavior
her touch, her words, like a bomb diffuser

he settles down, mellows out a bit
stops arguing with the police

as if he got a reprieve
he’s able to work away without being arrested

thanks to his loving, caring girlfriend’s intersession
sometimes a good woman is better than a lawyer.

Bob Boyd

Pray you are never in a forest when everything goes quiet
birds, insects, the wind

an eerie silence, a foreboding stillness that chills your soul
and signals something horrifying is about to happen

if you are lucky it will be only a rambunctious bear
but most likely it will be a terrifying cryptid coming for you

and that horrific terror will be the last thing you will see
before you are disappeared and become a 411.

Bob Boyd

I’m not kidding you; they really do
supposedly these spouses are hybrids
part human, part alien
supposedly aliens have been creating
these hybrids for ages
extracting semen from human men
stealing eggs from human women
with those basic building blocks
manufacturing human replications
that look and act like you and me.

Bob Boyd

I fully got that saying
marriage can change everything
best behaviors fade away
thoughts and words less guarded
the real person emerges
the hidden faults exposed
less of that person inhibited
hopefully no darkness in that soul
or evil in that spouse’s core.

Bob Boyd

Aside from loved ones, there are some people
I wish never died

listening to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast
old shows in YouTube videos

thinking about how I wish he could
have continued his shows forever

even though Coast to Coast continues
and Georgy Noory is a great replacement

I still bemoan that Art is no longer hosting
and died in 2018

but maybe he’s broadcasting in another world
where he’s living a better, blissful life forever.

Bob Boyd

Sometimes I wish the sexual impulse
wasn’t so prominent in my species

when I think of all the harmful excesses
rape, pedophilia, sexual harassment, etc

unwanted babies, couplings based
on sexual gratification devoid of love

men relentlessly tormented by the impulse
the need for release constant, unremitting

some have made irreversible mistakes
because of its control over them

if only the impulse could be less domineering
and only aroused for real love and procreation.

Bob Boyd

Crowds of people in Newcastle, England
roaming the streets tonight

some are lovely young women dressed alluringly
some are young men looking to meet them

one man is like a zombie, barely conscious, standing
on a sidewalk weaving like a reed in a gentle wind

he’s completely drugged out, reminds me of the people
on the streets of Kensington, Avenue, PA

a lost soul drowning in the sea of Newcastle people
the police approach him presumably to help him

hopefully in a hospital, not in a prison cell
which might be a chance to save this terribly lost soul.

Bob Boyd