The Nagging Need for Another

Once in a while I get what I see as delusional,
the nagging need for another, another woman
in my vintaged life.

I expunge that need from my sometimes
lovelorn mind by weighing the pros and the cons,
and the cons always win.

Sometimes I wish I could do some psychic surgery
on the part of my brain that emits what I see as
harmful, romantic feelings.

But those occasional feelings are so deeply rooted
in my unruly old brain that I don’t think that even
a lobotomy could weed them out.

Bob Boyd

Women Are Not What They Used to Be

I often see them in crime shows getting arrested
for drunk driving.
I often see them in the news, teachers sexaully
abusing students.
I often see their links on YouTube to OnlyFans
exhibiting their bodies for money.
I often read about them on Sugar Daddy sites
selling their bodies for money.
I often see them on Youtube and TickTock videos
unhinged, acting insanely, over politics.
I often saw them on YouTube and TikTok videos
ecstatic that Chirley Kirk got murdered.
Some of them are alcholics, some are pedophles,
some are like prostitutes,some are just plain evil,
many, perhaps most, you cannot trust.
Women are not what they used to be, except
for some who still are what they used to be.

Bob Boyd

It Was Always About Her

She claimed she loved him,
but she really loved herself.

When she got bored with him,
he saw she was really uncaring,
indifferent to his problems.

He saw then the real her,
superficial and about herself,
never really about him.

Not unlike those Dear John
women who write off men
they say they love when
the men are away in the military.

He saw the inevitable coming,
her departure from him,
and he was so relieved
when she was finally gone.

Often men are better off
when alone.

Bob Boyd