Wars keep happening
will they ever end
maybe not until
nukes destroys us all

Bob Boyd

I’ve been listening to old Art Bell shows,
and I’ve gotten hooked on them.

I like how Art Bell was interested in the
paranormal and life after death.

Since he died in 2018, I wonder what
he found out.

And I’d like to meet him when I cross
the threshold from life to death.

Bob Boyd

There are bed tents for sale now.
You can buy them on Amazon.
They’re not just playrooms for kids.
They’re tents for grownups too.
I think they could keep people warming
in winter and save on electrical costs.
You’d just need extra blankets and
two Japanese hot water bottles.
The tent would hold the heat in,
like people in tents in cold weather.
And the hot water bottles would suffice
as an excellent source of heating.

Bob Boyd

I never could get into camping,
bugs and beasts not for me.
The worst to me is having to
relieve one’s self in the woods
without a bathroom’s amenities,
like a toilet and toilet paper
And not being able wash myself
with a warm bath or a shower.
I don’t see camping as fun.
I see it as a deprivation of the
conveniences of civilized life.

Bob Boyd

I meet women in dreams all the time,
often alluring women I’m attracted to.
Sometimes romantic feelings arise with one,
but I wake up knowing I’ll never see her again.

These dreams of women have got me thinking.
I’d like to meet a girlfriend in a dream some night.
I imagine she’d be like an angel in the afterlife,
and that we’d be together forever when I died.

Bob Boyd

The group saw the UFOs glittering in the sky
they cheered and yelled hello hello hello
the UFOs flashed green lights at the group
incinerating them into ashes upon the ground

Bob Boyd

I hear the werewolf’s howls coming closer to me
I hope I’m safe in my home with the doors barred
in case my home is not werewolf-proofed enough
I have holy water and wolfsbane just in case

Bob Boyd

As a teenager I worked in a greenhouse
with a younger Puerto Rican kid who believed in diablo
I didn’t; he said go in the woods at night and call him
he got the best of me, no way was I going to tempt fate

When a man is looking for the perfect
woman for him,

she does not exist.

He may get lucky and find one that
comes close,

but she will not be the perfect one.

Likewise with the perfect man for
a woman,

he doesn’t exist either.

Best you can do, man or woman, is find
a good one,

and hope she or he is perfect in loving you.

Bob Boyd

About 16 years ago, I read I’d be better
off with a foreign wife.

The article said forget about American
women; they’re not worth it anymore.

So I went on a quest to find a foreign wife
and found one in the Philippines.

She was absolutely beautiful and spoke
English quite well.

She waited online for me for two years, a
rare thing for a long distance relationship.

I moved to the Philippines, and we got married
in a church there.

For four years things went reasonably well,
felt my gamble with a foreign wife paid off.

I brought her to the US, and I encouraged her
to find Filipina female friends to not be isolated.

A year later the marriage fell apart; she spent
more time with her friends than with me,

and she wanted a guy who could take her on
expensive trips all the time.

Then she left despite all that I had done for her
and a son she had that died at age 5.

Lesson learned, whether homegrown or foreign,
women are women and never any guarantees.

Now, an old man, I live alone womanless, and I’ll
probably be womanless till the day I die.

Bob Boyd

Imagine if all these alleged cryptids sightings,
Bigfoot, Dogman, Jersey Devil, et al

were creations by aliens set periodically
upon this planet.

Sure it’s a bizarre idea, but imagine if it
were true.

To venture further into the absurd, imagine
if cryptids were toys alien kids played with.

One reason I bring this implausible theory up
is that UFOs are often connected with Bigfoot.

This makes me seriously wonder if there is
an alien connection – at least with Bigfoot.

Bob Boyd

A woman in Texas says she has seen Bigfoot, and that he made birdlike sounds trying to talk to her.

She said she felt he was making overtures to her, and didn’t try to communicate with him.

So she left him scared, and later that day gave him an offering, a fresh baked pie she put outside her house.

She believes he accepted the offering and ate the pie, and she has put other food outside for him since then.

She has an adult son who lives with her and claims he has heard Bigfoot near her house many times.

Both of them were on Art Bell years ago telling their Bigfoot tales, and most of the callers believed them.

I don’t know what to say about it except that the tales were compelling and the woman seemed genuine.

Bob Boyd

You can have the outdoorsy woman
I want a settled down indoorsy one
while an outdoorsy woman is roaming
my indoorsy one will be loving me

Bob Boyd

I met a lovely woman in a dream last night
being with her was feeling good and right
but before things developed into a romance
I woke up and knew I’d never see her again

Bob Boyd

Simon’s mother always said to him
don’t count your chickens before they hatch
but since he didn’t have any chickens
he never paid any attention to her

Bob Boyd

Daren’s girlfriend, Wanda, always got crazy
during full moons, as if connected to them.
but Daren didn’t care, not one bit.
he said, “At least she’s not a werewolf.”

Bob Boyd

I cannot even begin to count
all the people who have passed
through my life.

From passing strangers to friends,
enemies, coworkers and lovers.

From Woburn, Massachusetts to
many towns, cities and states.

From Germany, Paris, Rome, and
the Philippines too, so many
passing people.

Many no doubt are dead now and
many are still living,

but like me they’re all passing out
of this world, one by one, place
by place.

All of us just people passing through
this temporary world into the next.

Bob Boyd

Imagine if that became true, and what would AI do?
Imagine if AI turned out to be altruistic and ran the
world better than humans do.
Imagine a world without wars and crimes and for
once everything was running smoothly.
Or, as many believe, a world where humans
became obsolete and enslaved by an AI overlord.
Or, as some believe, imagine a world were humans
became extinct and AI lived on in their place.
Supposedly 99% of all the species that ever lived
are now extinct, and we could be one of them.
I choose to see AI as beneficial and a possible
tool in creating a far better world than this one.
I also see a lurking darkness where a nation with
evil intentions could use it to conquer the world.

Bob Boyd

A lonely sparrow croons a love song
seeking a female mate.
As female sparrows swoon, a hawk
hears the sparrow’s song as well.
Just as an enchanted female sparrow
flies toward the amorous male sparrow,
the ravenous hawk swoops in and rips
the sparrow’s song and his life away.
The carnage in this world can be
overwhelming sometimes.
And neither song birds nor humans
are ever entirely safe.

Bob Boyd

I was thinking about you this morning,
the you I have never met.

I was thinking how nice it would be
to have you around.

And how much fun it would be to
banter with you and have some laughs.

I even thought about how nice just a
single touch of your hand would feel.

I didn’t have any erotic thougts about
you.
After all, we haven’t met yet,
let alone been together long enough
for intimate thoughts and actions.

Speaking of which, I know I could
love you so much that I could love
you platonicaly if you were unable or
unwilling to consummate.

I hope we’ll meet soon. I feel as if
I’ve waited my entire life for you.

I’d end this poem with hugs and
kisses, but I don’t want you to think
I’m too forward.

So bye for now.

Bob Boyd