His dog always knew when he was
being taken to the veterinarian.
He’d whine and moan and always
tried to hide.
The man who owned the dog
was almost the same.
Although he didn’t try to hide
or whine and moan outwardly
he avoided going to a doctor
like his dog would have
if his dog had free will and
wasn’t forced to go.
Bob Boyd
My friend Benny was always lucky at playing poker;
he always won money at it.
Benny was lucky with women as well; he never seemed
to get rejected and always had girlfriends.
But though an otherwise nice guy, Benny cheated at poker,
and he cheated on women.
Benny sometimes played poker with dangerous men
and I thought one day he’d get caught cheating with them
and end up dead and buried somewhere, a missing person,
never found.
But Benny’s biggest mistake was cheating on a crazy woman
who sent him to his grave with a bullet in his head.
Bob Boyd
I never cared about climbing dangerous mountains.
or skydiving out of airplanes thousands of feet above ground.
In my view, life is risky enough without making it
even more risky.
To me, the only risk of my life worth taking has always
been risking it in defence of another.
But that’s just me and you might be different, savorng the thrills and finding inexpressible joy and excitement
in climbing dangerous mountains and jumping out of airplanes whereas I’ve always been too scared to do those things.
Bob Boyd
Time is like a lawnmower
the way it keeps mowing
down my days.
My life is like a large lawn
that is three fourths or more
mowed as of today, Saturday.
I can’t hear the hum of the mower
but I can feel the days being
mowed away.
Bob Boyd
I have old friends in the afterlife.
And I’m good with being dead like them.
I wholeheartedly welcome the Reaper
and look forward to joining those friends.
I have consumed more than enough
of the pleasures and the pains of this life.
I’ve had more than my allotted share.
So it’s easy for me to think this way,
and I can barely wait for my dying day.
Bob Boyd
I wake up this morning at 3 am.
I think to myself if I had a girlfriend
or a wife who slept with me,
that would probably be an annoyance
to them.
I see that as one of the many benefits
of living solo without a girlfriend or a wife.
Sure it can get lonely without a
significant other, but there are also benefits
that you don’t have when with another.
I feel blessed that I can see my situation
that way, and I greet another wonderful day.
Bob Boyd
Many are the breakups,
Many are the divorces
Few seem to be the
high school sweethearts
whose love lasts a lifetime.
Some grow tired of what
was the loves of their lives.
Some grow apart when
the excitement dies down.
A few have murdered their
once loves of their lives.
Blessed are those whose
love lasts.
Bob Boyd
He Heard strange hissing sounds coming from his barn,
Something paranormal in the night he wondered, scared.
The eerie sounds ceased, and he could not find the source.
Some kind of vanishing ghosts or worse?
Heard it again next night, brought a gun and a flashlight,
Heard a whooshing sound inside the barn,
Only wind blowing through an open window.
At last he found the source of the hissing sounds,
A proud barn owl looking straight at him.
Bob Boyd
As a tall, skinny teenage kid
I wanted to get body builder big
lifted weights, popped protein pills
did body building exercises
I read about in muscle mags
lots of bench presses and curls
I got stronger, muscles got bigger
but I never got body builder big
I didn’t know about genetics then
and nobody was taking steroids.
Bob Boyd
Poodle dogs are smart
they’re also a little crazy
I’ve seen tiny poodles
charge at bigger dogs
though I admire their bravery
I’m sure some have been
torn to pieces because of it.
Bob Boyd