Screw dating being about love
money is her bottom line
her nonnegotiable requirement
to be deemed even remotely
worthy of her mercantile amore
if you’re a moderate income
nice guy you’re unacceptable
if you’re a rich SOB, you might be
but between you and me and
maybe her if she’s listening
she’s a bad investment
for your non-monetized
precious, no nonsense love.
Bob Boyd
The Bigfoot sightings
keep increasing
you could say
it’s just nonsense
but could over 75,000
people be mistaken,
pranksters or liars?
the sheer volume
of the numbers
suggest there’s
something real here
perhaps something
that can appear and
disappear at will.
Bob Boyd
Stories about monsters
dangers everywhere
turn on the tv
read the news
no where is safe
one day a monster might
get you or me
the wrong place
the wrong time
or merely random
a random shooting
a break in
an attack on the street
on a bus or a train
in a church or restuarant
even in a store
by one of the monsters
monsters that are men
sometimes women.
Bob Boyd
She was beautiful in all ways,
inwardly, outwardly, compassionately.
She worked as a teacher, making a
difference in the lives of children.
A devout Catholic, one day she went
to mass, as she always did
and never returned home, which was
unlike her.
The truth is when she went into that
church, she never came out.
And maybe you have already figured
out what happened to her.
She was murdered by the priest, probably because
he raped her and tried to cover up his infamous crime.
What bothers me even more is how could this happen
to such a devout and caring woman?
But, alas, even with the God loving, evil often comes
for them and without any Divine protections.
Bob Boyd
Sure you were beautiful, far more than
most beautiful women.
I’d even add breathtaking and
hearbreakingly beautiful.
But when you opened your luscious lips
and the ugly words came out,
all the beautiful evaporated into
an ugly mess.
Bob Boyd
A mob pelted police in New York City with snowballs,
some with ice in them,
which injured at least one police officer, and the
police not arresting anyone made them look weak.
The new mayor,Zohran Mamdani,not backing the police,
said it was just kids having a snowball fight.
Obviously, he was lying and showing he had
no use for the police and will probably defund them,
as is the modus operandi of left-leaning politicians
of his ilk.
Mark my words, this is just the beginning of worse
things to come for the once great New York City.
Bob Boyd
My days are passing by faster,
winter almost gone in a flash,
days, weeks, months, years
all racing by.
I think Time’s acceleration is
determined to quicken my one
way ticket to the grave.
What Time doesn’t know is I’m
good with this acceleration and
looking forward to what mysteries
Death holds.
I’ve experienced enough of this life
the ups and downs of it, and I’m
free of any ties binding me to this
world.
And I firmly believe a better world
than this unpredictable one replete
with too much evil and suffering
awaits me in the afterlife.
But if I’m mistaken, and my one
way ticket is only to the grave
I’m perfectly fine with that too.
Bob Boyd
The earth keeps spinning.
My heart keeps beating,
though not as well as when
I was young.
And when my heart stops beating
and the earth will still be spinning,
my remains will be more a part of it
buried in the ground,
maybe in someway benefitting it,
like fertilizer benefiting plants and
vegetables in the ground.
Bob Boyd
In a dream last night I moved with some people somewhere else for more opportunities and I think for love.
Then everything went awry, and I was unemployed and running out of money with the love unfound.
And the people I moved somewhere with were going separate ways and abandoning me for their own interests.
I was alone and worried about running out of money, and no way to make any more money somewhere where jobs were scarce
especially for an old man like me.
Then I woke up in the familiar, comforting bedroom of my apartment instead of somewhere with my life coming apart with no money and no work, relieved that my distress was only in a dream.
Bob Boyd
I hear the black preacher
talking on the am radio station
the way some black folks talk
smooth and natural
without using perfect grammar
or big, showy words
his inventive use of grammar
his natural sounding words
go straight to my heart
better than those preachers
with PhDs.
Bob Boyd
Everything is going
great for you
couldn’t be better
the right job
the right lover
perfect health
but then one
or more of
the unexpected:
a job loss
right lover gone
health problems
like an apple cart
turned over with
apples running all
over the ground
are the many problems
in your turned upside
down once perfect life.
Bob Boyd
Amazing how, the right woman
can have such an effect on you
a look from her eyes, near ecstasy
the touch of her hand, heavenly
to hold her, like holding an angel
oh how I miss those days
days that for me are gone
as are my youthful years
but maybe, in the afterlife
I’ll be with the right woman again.
Bob Boyd
I don’t like spiders
maybe you do
they creeped me out
from day one
it’s as if they have
a knack for that
creeping others out too
but those tiny jumping
spiders are kinda cute
don’t ask me
about tarantulas.
Bob Boyd
He went on a lion safari
in South Africa
to get some photos of
those magnificent beasts
he got out of his jeep
and got twenty meters
close to the peaceful lions
for an optimal photo
the lions began stirring
even better he mused
but he failed to realise
his fatal error when
a roaring lion traversed
the twenty meters in
three terrifying seconds
too late for him to escape.
Bob Boyd
Does romantic love endure
or even exist
in the unknowable afterlife?
Is romantic love transient
like this earthly life is?
Is romantic love forever
two hearts eternally
united, soulmates
and love ever after?
Or as it seems to be with
all the other species
is romantic love merely
for procreation and the
advancement of our
human species?
God only knows.
Bob Boyd
He sits at his computer
remembering past loves.
But he can’t pine over
any of them, as if they
never happened at all.
Like everything else,
the love he once had
for each of them
has been swept away
in the tides of time.
Bob Boyd
Everyday in America
dozens of people are murdered
what the hell kind of a world
are we living in?
and hell is the operative word
for all these murdered people
who go out of the world that way
and if there’s a God of love
where’s the love in all these killings
but as I think about it, killing
happens all throughout creation
insects, fish, animals all killing
even weeds and plants kill
all under a God of love above
unless there’s just a God
that’s impersonal and everything
that happens on earth is random
or maybe there’s no God at all.
Bob Boyd
The daughter of the mayor
in her small town
married to the chief of police
a substitute teacher
hot as hell
gets involved with a student
a 15-year-old kid
now she’s gone to jail
for a six year sentence
but she’s only one of many
of the female teachers
sexually abusing students
what the hell has happened
to female teachers nowadays?
Bob Boyd
Yet another true crime show
where a woman gets murdered
this time an innocent teacher
murdered by a guy she met in a bar
the number of young women
who get murdered in these crime
shows is nearly numberless
woe to all these women taken
brutally out of this world
curses on all the male monsters
who murderously take their lives.
Bob Boyd
They had an open marriage
the fun and games were going well
spicing up the marriage with plenty
of new and exciting partners
everything was terrific and wonderful
loving their alternative lifestyle
until they had a ferocious argument
about the ground rules
then the husband lost his temper
and his wife shot him to death.
Bob Boyd