I knew a wild woman named Viv
who always said she was sticking it to the man.
She liked breaking parking meters with sledge hammers.
She busted machines that you had to pay money
to get stuff out of.
She never paid income taxes, always got jobs that
paid under the table.
She rarely paid any attention to speed limits,
said her personal best was a buck and a quarter.
She stuck it too much to the man when she
robbed a bank and got caught.
Now the man is sticking it to her in a court where
she just got sentenced to up to 20 years in prison.

Bob Boyd

The best friend you ever had

is always there for you
has been with you like forever
never let you down
never put you down
never a fair weather friend
with you even in stormy weather
loves you like no other

that best friend is you

Bob Boyd

Melvin, age 50, told a female friend of his,
Gloria, age 60, she looked good for her age.
Instead of appreciating the complement
Gloria became pissed and raged.
She called Melvin a son of a bitch.
Melvin tried to convince Gloria that
he only meant to compliment her.
Gloria became psycho crazy, pulled a
pistol out of her purse, and shot Melvin.
Melvin bled out on the floor and
a wild-eyed Gloria ran for the door.
That was back in 2004, and the cops
still haven’t found a trace of Gloria,
even though she’s living on her
Social Security somewhere in Mexico.

Bob Boyd

I have thought about trying to live without
a car many times.
But the inconvenience always outweighs
the convenience of having a car.
Now that I am older and see doctors
a car guarantees I’ll make appoments.
A tax cab might or might not provide that
same guarantee based on my experience.
And I shudder at the cost of having a taxi
wait for me while I grocery shop.
And I worry about being like a shut in
if I had my groceries delivered.
So I’m still not car free like the many
I admire because they can pull it off.

Bob Boyd

His Days Grow Shorter.
Time passes faster.
Death is coming for him soon
because of his advanced age.
But he’s lived long enough
to not really be concerned.
And he sees in dying
the entry into a greater life
than the life of the living.

Bob Boyd

When an elderly woman was diagnosed
with Alzheimer’s, the shock of it nearly
gave her a heart attack.
She had expected she had something wrong
with her mind.
But she hoped doctors would find a cure for it.
When she found out it was Alzheimer’s, and
no cure existed for it,
she decided to end her life by walking into
the deep water of a pond and drowning to death.
I can understand that and were I her, I’d feel
the same way, though I can’t say I’d end my life.

Bob Boyd

Somehow, a video about 20 women
who took their own lives popped up
on my YouTube front page.
Most of them were under 40, some
under 30; so tragic, so sad.
A few were elderly; one had been
diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.
Practically all of them suffered from
severe depression, and I have to
wonder why, in God’s name,
many people are afflicted with that.
I hope all of them went to a place
where their depression, sorrows,
and heartaches healed forever—
a heavenly place where peace and
happiness were theirs forever.

Bob Boyd

Tommy was a terror in high school,
got kicked out many times.
He got in fights even more times.
But then he met Shelia and
miraculously he did a 180.
He started getting good grades
in school, became well behaved.
But when Shelia cheated on him
and shattered his young heart,
he became a terror again and
dropped out of high school.
He was so broken he got into
drugs and became an addict.
OD on Christmas eve and died
on Christmas morning.
RIP Tommy.

Bob Boyd

Myrna never had any trouble attracting men.
A single look and they were hers.
It was as if she could put spells on them to
make them instantly fall in love with her.
And she loved falling in love over and over.
So, she consciously or unconsciously always
sabotaged her romantic relationships.

She never stayed with a man for more than a
few years, but she had a hell of a life with
the many varieties of men she met and loved.
Perhaps she was a genius of love who never
stayed with one man long enough to get bored
and perpetually had exciting, passionate love.

Bob Boyd

Dream Woman

That look, that look, oh that look.
I wanted it to last forever, and I
wanted to get to know her so badly.
But the dream had to end before
that could happen.

Those eyes, those eyes, oh those
beautiful blue eyes. She held them
on me, and I felt ecstatic, but oh no,
the dream had to end before I could
even talk to her.

I must be suffering from the lack of
a woman in my life, despite my not
seeking one, and I would have died
for that dream woman if I could have
been with her in the dream world

Oh my God that look, that look, that
look, those eyes, those eyes, those
beautiful blue eyes.

Bob Boyd