Day: May 20, 2026

He had a girlfriend named Sara
who had a weird doll.
She held that doll, she called
Clara, as if it were a real child.
Because Sara was heartbreakingly hot,
I tried to overlook her doll obsession.
But I must admit the doll creeped me out,
and it often seemed to look at me,
with evil in its plastic eyes.
For the two months I was with Sara,
bad things happened to me.
I got laid off from my job.
My car got stolen, never found.
I got a wicked case of COVID,
nearly died from it.
Crazy as it may seem, I believe
that doll was cursing me.
I think it was because it was jealous
of the attention Sara was giving me.
When I broke up with Sara, the
bad luck ended.
I have no doubt that lifted the doll’s
curse, which I believe would have
killed me had I stayed with Sara.

Bob Boyd

I knew Vivian in high school when she
was a fun and studious girl.

I had a crush on her, and felt she had
a crush on me,

but we never really got to know
each other,

like a might-have-been or a love
lost.

After graduation, at a post-high school party
that I was unable to attend,

she got drunk for the first time, and on the
way home,

she lost control of her car and died instantly
when she plowed into a semi-trailer truck.

Now I see Vivian in occasional dreams,
telling me she misses me

and saying we’ll be together soon, which,
I must confess, scares the hell out of me.

Bob Boyd

She’s an old woman now,
her life is ebbing out of her.

Those friends of her youth,
all dead or gone.

She’s all alone in the world;
no one cares about her.

She spends her days in solitude,
with no desire to go anywhere;

nowhere holds any appeal, and
she cries her waning days away.

Bob Boyd