Some people claim
they have summoned them
and the experience was real

I’ve seen Dr. Greer’s Documentary
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind
I think for free on Amazon
a few years back

lights in the sky
lights streaking on the ground

supposedly intuitive downloads
experiences of deep peace

some skeptics claim the
contacts are fake
flares and lasers used
to stage the lights in the sky
and on the ground
and group belief
making fake contacts
happen

to me, it looked real
but to my surprise
no clear UFO sightings
except for the sky
and ground lights

no aliens appeared
in person
or inside the participant’s
minds

no UFOs touched down
on the ground

don’t think anyone received
telepathic messages

I was expecting to see
or hear of that
kind of proof of
bona fide alien
manifestations

never did

nonetheless
after looking into
otherworldly matters

I’ve come to believe
aliens are bona fide –
and that they are here.

Bob Boyd

As people age
changes in the brain
maybe in the biology
as well

change the way
time passes

days melt into nights
faster and faster

months and seasons
gone

almost as if in the blink
of an eye

hastening you to the
day you die.

Bob Boyd

I think it’s possible
civilizations like ours
or even more advanced,
were on this planet before

in the 4.54 billion years
earth has been in existence

those dead civilizations
buried deep within the earth

hidden and unfound
so far

another theory or reality
maybe Shiva’s dance is factual

the cosmos
created
sustained
dissolved
in unnumbered cycles
again and again ad infinitum

civilizations far more advanced
than ours, human, alien, hybrids
dissolved, gone forever

creations birthed
sustained
dissolved
Shiva’s dance over and over
eternally.

Bob Boyd

I’ve heard people claim they’re vampires
on YouTube and in documentaries

they’re not the fictional creatures of the night
they’re just sick humans who find human hosts

to donate their blood to them to drink
but not enough to harm the hosts

the fake vampires drink it, claim empowered,
but not with any vampiric, paranormal abilities

just like the unreal, fictional vampires
they are make believe too

they’d be better off with counseling
to heal their vampire personality disorders.

Bob Boyd

They’re not the walking dead
they’re not the undead
they’re the ant zombies
you probably think I’m kidding
and I love to kid around
but this time I’m not kidding
ant zombies are real
a zombie-ant fungus
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
zombitizes carpenter ants
it infects the ants, gets inside
them and controls them
eventually it forces the ant
to crawl up a small plant
sink its mandibles into it
and locks it in till it dies
but at least the infection
doesn’t create a hellish
zombie ant apocalypse
intent on killing off the
entire insect world.

Bob Boyd

Unidentifiable dead bodies fished out of the Seine
and scooped off streets of Paris

put on display behind windows on tilted, marble slabs
their clothes hung next to their bodies

became public viewing at a morgue named La Morgue
at first to try to identify the nameless corpses

eventually free entertainment for the masses
sometimes as many as 40,000 visitors a day

gawking at the dead bodies of men, women
and children

vendors hawked goods outside the morgue
that had a greater attendance than theaters

visiting La morgue became a social event
to see and be seen at

open seven days a week from dawn to 6pm
locals and tourists attended in droves

a ghoulish good time for every one of them
parents even brought their children

who would ever have imagined
rubbernecking the decaying dead

would become popular entertainment
at a Paris morgue in the 1800s.

Bob Boyd

Here in America in many states
people report a young woman
hitchhiking on a highway
in the dark of night

when some kind soul
gives her a ride
she gets in the car
and acts a little off

usually she’s wearing
something like a prom dress
in variations of the allegedly
true story

she tells the driver to stop at a cemetery
gets out of the car and walks into it

as if it were the most natural thing in the world
to enter a cemetery in the dark of night
if followed, she disappears

in some tellings of this tale
sometimes a smitten young man
supposedly gets a date with her
before she gets out of the car

when he goes to her address days later
for the date, her mournful mother opens
the door and says her daughter died years ago

I don’t know what this ghost girl’s name is
but I know with talk of her appearing in many states
throughout the U S of A, she sure gets around.

Bob Boyd

When they married
nuptial bliss
love forever
happy days
years later
resentments arose
arguments ensued
hate crept in
love ran away
couldn’t stand
each other
could no longer
be together
wise reader,
tell me true
why is it
nuptial bliss
often ends
like this?

Bob Boyd

Never tried any techniques
to try to have lucid dreams

but occasionally I get
them

and sometimes they are
annoying lucid dreams

had one the other night
in it I’m with a woman

who is my girlfriend
or my wife

I do better in dreams
than in real life

just kidding, I don’t
pursue women in real life

in the dream the woman
is sitting next to me

a guy approaches her
bends down to try to kiss her

I get homicidally enraged
and roar

touch her, and I will
knock you the fuck out

terrified, he backs away
and I know I can knock him out

I wake up relieved it was
just a dream

I’m too old to be acting crazy
or trying to knock people out.

Bob Boyd