When people get older, their bodies get stiffer,
as if rigor mortis is beginning to set in.
Their skin gets drier and looks weathered,
as if the skin is getting ready to be a corpse.
And at some point if a person lives too long,
he will begin looking more dead than alive.
If I live long enough to get that old, I hope I die
before I start looking almost like a zombie.
Bob Boyd
Some people hate rats
some have them for pets
some people hate tarantulas
some people have them for pets
some people hate snakes
some people have them for pets
if I had a gun put to my head and
I was forced to have one of them
for a pet
If I was ordered to have the spider
I’d say pull the trigger
same if I was ordered to have the snake
though I wouldn’t want a rat for
a pet
I wouldn’t die to not have it
and maybe I’d even get to like it
Bob Boyd
She has long red hair and blue eyes,
and she’s incredibly beautiful.
And if you look into her eyes too long,
as if she put a sirenlike spell on you,
you will fall hopelessly in love with her,
even though she’s just a painting.
Bob Boyd
Women in Saigon are so incredibly pretty
some like goddesses in long traditional Vietnamese dresses
how I wish I was young and with one of those Asian beauties
after I die I hope I’m reborn in Saigon and marry one of them
Bob Boyd