She was taking eighteen pills
for a myriad of medical conditions.

One could wonder if living is worth
having to take eighteen pills to stay alive.

I think to myself I’d rather die than
take a mini pharmacy to remain living.

But probably I’d be just like her
and take those eighteen pills,

at the least, to lessen any suffering
before I died.

Bob Boyd

She looks in the mirror and still sees
a beautiful young woman,

even though she’s eight and eighty.

Old age has distorted her mind;
she’s unable to see the truth,

the wrinkled, old woman she’s become.

She thinks she’s still in her twenties,
young, carefree and beautiful,

like she was in her youth.

Maybe she’s better off than
if she knew the truth and saw

the dying, old woman in her mirror.

Bob Boyd

For years he had
a crush on her.
She’d seem interested
then push him away.
A year would pass,
he’d try again.
She’d seem interested
then push him away.
After about three years
of his yearly pursuits,
he realized his inane,
prolonged crush made
a fool out of him.
And when he saw her
a year after his folly
completely ceased,
he wondered what
he had seen in her
to squander his heart
on her for all
those wasted years.

Bob Boyd

When she was nice,
she was sweet.

But then she’d
go psycho,

and her demons
would come out.

She’d scream and
she’d shout,

swear and attack
him.

He hung in there
with her,

thought he could
change her.

But she changed
him

when she drove
a knife into

his chest one
night

and changed him
into a ghost.

Bob Boyd

Day runs into night
night runs into day
sun during the day
moon at night
light and darkness
time speeding up
faster and faster
people getting
older and older
graves opening
for their corpses
soon skeletons
eventually all dust.

Bob Boyd

She was always uncommonly nice
and often angelic.

Perhaps that’s why God took her to heaven
at age seven.

Bob Boyd

I believe it’s plausible that all these cryptids
could be creatures coming out of other dimensions.

And some translucent, like the alien in the movie
Predator.

This could explain why with over 5,600 alleged
Bigfoot sightings as of 2023,

no corpses or creditable proof has been found,
and why some claim he disappears.

It’s also why I find that theory plausible.

Bob Boyd

When I was a teenager
back in the sixties,
I knew a kid who liked
to thumb rides and get
picked up by a gay guy
to beat the shit out of
him.

It made no sense to me.

Why intentionally go out
of your way to harm
people with different
sexual orientations?

Now I think he had gay
tendencies he was
uncomfortable with and

beat up gays to try to
beat the gayness out
of himself.

I only saw him once,
and I wonder if he
tried to beat up the

wrong gay and got
killed or put in prison.

Bob Boyd

I saw a woman on YouTube
complaining about men
who don’t chase her.

You may think that’s not
unreasonable.

I see it as an egotistical
game some women play.

And I’ve never been one
to grovel for a woman
or to play foolish games.

Bob Boyd

Pink seems to be a woman’s color.
I wonder why that is.
Why not yellow or green,
for example.
Is there something in their DNA
that predisposes them to the
color pink?
I probably could do some easy
research to find out,
but I prefer to remain perplexed
by this mystery.
And I really think women
look great in the color pink.

Bob Boyd