Billy Said He Was an Alien

They swarmed us like a war of the worlds,
those goddamn bees.

I was nine. My lucky and strange friend Billy was ten.

I got stung twenty times. Billy got didn’t
get stung at all.

At first I couldn’t figure out why the bees kept stinging me
and none stung Billy.

Billy said it was because he was an alien.
I laughed back then, but now I think he was right.

Because three years later, I saw a large UFO over Billy’s house
and Billy and his family disappeared forever.

I think he must have gone back to his home planet
in some distant galaxy unknown to any scientists.

Bob Boyd

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Author: BobBoyd

Quomodo cogis comas tuas sic videri? 79, cancer survivor, work out 3 times a week, ride my exercise bike 2 hours daily. Began writing poetry October 2023, living in Greensboro, North Carolina, originally from just outside of Boston, MA. Retired and enjoying a solo, reclusive life always researching and gaining knowledge. Most of my poems are fictional. I write about many things: Spirituality, Mysticism, the Paranormal, Cryptids, Werewolves, Ghosts, 411s, Nature, Birds, Animals, Romantic Love, Death, NDEs, Women Persecuted as Witches, Fictional Characters I Create, News Stories, AI, Robots, Insects, like the poem entitled, Hail Caesar Bob, (about when bees were swarming me outside the door to my apartment), and many other topics. I write a minimum of 3 poems daily, sometimes more.

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