Day: March 30, 2026

Beneath the skin of
The one we fondle today,
There is a skeleton,
Propping up the flesh.

Ikkyu

I love this poem, but it disturbs me deeply. The image of a woman I am holding in my arms being a skeleton one day is almost unbearable. But it radically reminds me of the nature of this impermanence we temporarily live it.

After Brad’s girlfriend broke up with him,
he said she broke his heart in so many pieces
that like Humpty Dumpty’s pieces,
his heart could never be put back together again.

He said he’d become like the Tinman
without a heart and better to be without a heart
than with a heart that can be broken.

He always said that when he got drunk,
when he tried to forget the woman
who broke his heart beyond repair.

Bob Boyd

Supposedly the earthbound disembodied
aka ghosts

have lost their ways to the Light.

I’m proposing a GPS system for them,
so instead of haunting dusty old houses

they can find their way to the Light.

Bob Boyd

For some people, going to Vegas is like a
dream come true.

For me, it has zero appeal.

I don’t care for the glitter or the
gambling for gold.

And you couldn’t pay me to
go there.

Bob Boyd

Heard a story about a male ghost
coming through Alexa

like a Ouija Board

the ghost played an old song about
not being able to go through a white door

presumably further into the afterlife

after that the woman and a neighbor
saw the male ghost

in their homes

the woman who owned the Alexa
used sage and holy water

to cleanse her home

supposedly her methods worked
along with a prayer

the ghost never appeared again.

Bob Boyd