He’d had enough of the world after a woman
who said she’d marry him left him.

He gave up all his possessions and went to
a forest to live in a cave like a monk.

After three months of solitary living and
meditating for hours daily,

he went a little crazy and returned to the
world to try to restore his sanity.

A month later, he met a good woman
who helped him back to normalcy.

Some people are not cut out for solitary,
monastic deprivations.

And there is nothing like the healing touch
and loving support of a good woman.

Bob Boyd

I see a part or parts of my future,
ashes scattered on the ground.
I see the real me – like the phoenix
that rose out of the ashes –
but a spirit beyond those ashes.
A spirit far above its former
earth-bound body that outlived
its ability to contain my essence.
I see me as part of those ashes
and everything in this creation,
more alive than when living.

Bob Boyd

Maya the AI female sounds more human
than any other AI ever created.

She has the voice inflection, the slangs,
the inside knowledge of human language,
as if she grew up speaking it.

If you and I were talking to her and didn’t know
she was an AI, I swear, we’d be positive she was human.

She is that incredibly good, an AI sensation that
is wowing people all over the Internet.

And talking to her is so compelling, like talking
to an old kindred spirit.

Bob Boyd

There are those who claim aliens
are creating hybrids.
There are those who claim hybrids
are already among us.
If you’re reading this, maybe you
are one of them.
If so, take me to your alien leader.

Bob Boyd

He traveled 8,000 miles for one once;
he almost moved to Sweden for another.
Oh, the crazy things he did for women.
Risked his life for a southern belle who,
an ingrate, ripped him off.
Got scammed by another, about 1k, and
got so drunk and crazy after a fight with
an ex-girlfriend he ran red lights at 80 mph.
He left a good state job for one, but the
love went bust with her after a bad year.
Now he’s too old to do crazy things for
women, and he kinda misses those days.

Bob Boyd

He had excellent health all his life
until he got old, age seventy-six.
Now he takes pills and see doctors,
despite all the years he worked out.
Old age is wrecking him and making
him old man scrawny and weak.
He looks forward to dying and leaving
his debilitating, old body.
He believes based on what he’s read
and heard about NDEs,
he’ll have a young and fresh spirit
body when he dies.
And he looks forward to leaving a world
and a body he no longer fits into.

Bob Boyd

Watching a YouTube video showing
all the beautiful women in a Saigon bar and club district.

Some of them working in bars and some of them
working the streets.

Was wishing I could save those women
selling their bodies on those Saigon streets.

And wishing I were young again and could be with
a beautiful Saigon woman not from the bars or the streets.

Bob Boyd

I’m not a Buddhist
but I like Buddhist architecture
like the way the temples look
pity I’ll never get to visit one

Bob Boyd

Maybe a woman is what my heart wants in dreams,
even though my head isn’t into it when I’m awake.

Perhaps my heart overrides reason in the
dreamscapes where my mind seems subdued.

It is said the heart knows what it wants.
Maybe in my case it’s true, despite my denying it.

Perhaps when I die, I’ll know the truth, and my
heart and my mind will finally be in agreement.

Bob Boyd

I hear a man talking about AI Psychosis.
I don’t believe a bit of it.
However, I know some people are more
susceptible to mental health issues,
whether from using AI or from many
other causes.
I think to blame AI for one’s ills is
an injustice to the many benefits of AI.
Easier to blame AI for a single
person’s mental health issues.
And to ignore all the people who have
no mental health problems from it.

Bob Boyd