Day: April 7, 2026

She said she’d love me forever,
even added and ever behind the forever.
But her yearly calendar or her sense of forever
was tragically inexact, not everlasting.
The lasting minus the ever of her pledged love
survived less than eight seasons for unknown reasons
when she dated another and mathematically
broke her pledge and subtracted
all of the forever out of our momentary love.

Bob Boyd

If only octopi could fly
imagine seeing them in the sky.
And why does the plural of octopus
sound like a freshly baked pie?
But, of course, seeing octopi in the sky
wouldn’t fly.
People would freak out.
And Henny Penny would probably think
that terrifying sight was worse than the sky falling.
Or that it was something out of a Lovecraftian
cosmic horror tale come to life.
So, in retrospect, I guess it’s best that octopi
cannot fly in the sky.

Bob Boyd

It rains fish in Honduras up to four times yearly.
Strong winds, waterspouts, the prayers of a
Spanish priest? Nobody knows for sure.

In 1982 it was raining men in the USA,
according to a song by the Weather Girls.
Maybe we need a song about raining fish
in Honduras entitled Lluvia de peces.

Bob Boyd