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Recently, a random raccoon inexplicably fell
through the roof of a package store
and got into the liqueur
he drank to extreme excess, one hell of a bender
broken liqueur bottles all over the floor –
10 or more
streams of the liqueur spread all about
the store a chaotic mess
the raccoon wasted
drunk as a skunk, he passed out
face planted on the bathroom floor
apparently he has a drinking problem
that only a …
come-to-jesus moment can cure.
Bob Boyd
In the back yard of a house,
a man hung himself to death
from a tree
sometime later, a young
married couple moved
into the house
not long after that,
the wife went missing
was never found
until ten years later
when some construction
was being done
in the back yard and
a body was found
missing its arms
the wife’s body
killed by the jealous
husband
after that, another
couple moved into
the house
and felt a ghost
touching their limbs
when in bed
and heard the ghost
whisper the words
am I dead?
I believe it’s a real
account, but real
or not real
it gives me
the chills.
A ghost that appears
over and over
same actions each
time
as if trapped in a
terrible fate loop
that it cannot escape
from
is really only an
imprint of what
was a person
that loops continuously
while the person
that died
has gone on
to somewhere else
whether the grave
or the heavens.
Bob Boyd
It begins like a beautiful dream
that you could dream forever
but at some point it morphs into
a horrible nightmare you
want to end
if you’re at all introspective, you
wonder how could that dream
have become a nightmare
and at some point you realise
you’ll never be able to get that
dream back
and usually you end the
dream turned nightmare
forever
sadly, so many of those dreams
the ideal romantic partners
become waking nightmares.
Bob Boyd
If a butterfly has an awareness of time,
I wonder if its life of only weeks
feels the same as a human’s life
of years?
One thing I know; a butterfly has far
more predators than a human
birds, reptiles, amphibians and
some insects
essentially, we, assuming you are
human too, 🙂
have only other humans to worry
about killing us
so a butterfly’s life could
be less than weeks
whereas, a human has a better
chance of living a full life
except for predatory disases
that stalk and kill many of us
some of us living less days than
butterflies
and probably without an awareness
of time in those drastically
shortened lifes
in that regard, I believe
those that live days or
less than a few weeks
have the same lack of
an awareness of time
that I believe a butterfly
does.
Bob Boyd
A 19-year-old man in Brazil named Gerson who had
mental health problems and a love of big cats
snuck into a lion enclosure in a park in Brazil called
Parque Zoobotanico Arruda Camara (Bica Park)
in a video, I saw him climbing down a tree into the
enclosure and a lion running toward him
when he was four feet from the ground,
the lion leaped up and tore him from the tree
Gerson got up for a moment before the lion pulled
him back on the ground
and, mercifully, I couldn’t see what happened,
but there was no doubt Gerson was dead
my hope is that Gerson is in a heaven, his sanity restored,
and able to play with peaceful, big cats there.
Bob Boyd