Bad to the Bone Song

I’m listening to a song called Bad to the Bone.
The singer says that when he was a baby,
the head nurse knew he was bad to the bone.
I’m thinking to myself you can’t get badder
than that, and the guy must have been
genetically damned and headed for the
highway to hell. Of course, it’s just a song,
but imagine if someone came into this world
with that degree of badness in him that even
as an infant it was insanely evident, as if he
had palpable bad vibes right out of the womb.
Were you like that? I didn’t think so.

Bob Boyd

The Noble Neighborhood Squirrel

I see the neighborhood squirrel
and he sees me.

I think he knows me by sight,
but he runs away from me.

Perhaps he’s studied my kind
and knows many of us

cannot be trusted and will stab
another in the back to get ahead

or out of petty meanness will do
the same unexpectedly.

I’d say that makes the squirrel
better than many of us, and if I

got to know him, I’d probably find
him more noble than most of us.

Bob Boyd

He Had a Lot of Money and Thought He Could Get Away With Nearly Beating Her to Death

She was beautiful and moved to a big city
to be a model.

She met a wealthy man who was charming
and treated her like a princess.

She felt she’d found her prince and
was madly in love with him.

But six months later it all went to
pieces.

He became insanely jealous and
obsessively controlling.

She packed her things and moved
to an apartment safe from him

until he found out where she lived and
broke into her apartment.

He punched her in her face and head
for over an hour

until her face and head were smashed in,
and she was close to dying.

He picked her up, carried her outside
her apartment and dumped her body

next to a dumpster still unconscious
and barely alive.

Kind strangers found her and called
emergency services.

At the hospital hours of surgery and
removing part of her head

saved her life, but her mind was shot
and she had amnesia,

couldn’t speak and had no identification
on her.

Eventually the police found out
who she was

and that her ex boyfriend tried
to kill her.

When he was finally arrested after
his money and lawyers delayed the arrest,

he got sentenced to eight years in prison
for attempted murder. He freaked out

and collapsed on the courtroom floor dead
from a massive heart attack.

A monster removed from this world, and
may he get his due in a hellish afterlife.

Bob Boyd