I’ve heard people claim they’re vampires
on YouTube and in documentaries
they’re not the fictional creatures of the night
they’re just sick humans who find human hosts
to donate their blood to them to drink
but not enough to harm the hosts
the fake vampires drink it, claim empowered,
but not with any vampiric, paranormal abilities
just like the unreal, fictional vampires
they are make believe too
they’d be better off with counseling
to heal their vampire personality disorders.
Bob Boyd
They’re not the walking dead
they’re not the undead
they’re the ant zombies
you probably think I’m kidding
and I love to kid around
but this time I’m not kidding
ant zombies are real
a zombie-ant fungus
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
zombitizes carpenter ants
it infects the ants, gets inside
them and controls them
eventually it forces the ant
to crawl up a small plant
sink its mandibles into it
and locks it in till it dies
but at least the infection
doesn’t create a hellish
zombie ant apocalypse
intent on killing off the
entire insect world.
Bob Boyd
Unidentifiable dead bodies fished out of the Seine
and scooped off streets of Paris
put on display behind windows on tilted, marble slabs
their clothes hung next to their bodies
became public viewing at a morgue named La Morgue
at first to try to identify the nameless corpses
eventually free entertainment for the masses
sometimes as many as 40,000 visitors a day
gawking at the dead bodies of men, women
and children
vendors hawked goods outside the morgue
that had a greater attendance than theaters
visiting La morgue became a social event
to see and be seen at
open seven days a week from dawn to 6pm
locals and tourists attended in droves
a ghoulish good time for every one of them
parents even brought their children
who would ever have imagined
rubbernecking the decaying dead
would become popular entertainment
at a Paris morgue in the 1800s.
Bob Boyd
Here in America in many states
people report a young woman
hitchhiking on a highway
in the dark of night
when some kind soul
gives her a ride
she gets in the car
and acts a little off
usually she’s wearing
something like a prom dress
in variations of the allegedly
true story
she tells the driver to stop at a cemetery
gets out of the car and walks into it
as if it were the most natural thing in the world
to enter a cemetery in the dark of night
if followed, she disappears
in some tellings of this tale
sometimes a smitten young man
supposedly gets a date with her
before she gets out of the car
when he goes to her address days later
for the date, her mournful mother opens
the door and says her daughter died years ago
I don’t know what this ghost girl’s name is
but I know with talk of her appearing in many states
throughout the U S of A, she sure gets around.
Bob Boyd
When they married
nuptial bliss
love forever
happy days
years later
resentments arose
arguments ensued
hate crept in
love ran away
couldn’t stand
each other
could no longer
be together
wise reader,
tell me true
why is it
nuptial bliss
often ends
like this?
Bob Boyd
Never tried any techniques
to try to have lucid dreams
but occasionally I get
them
and sometimes they are
annoying lucid dreams
had one the other night
in it I’m with a woman
who is my girlfriend
or my wife
I do better in dreams
than in real life
just kidding, I don’t
pursue women in real life
in the dream the woman
is sitting next to me
a guy approaches her
bends down to try to kiss her
I get homicidally enraged
and roar
touch her, and I will
knock you the fuck out
terrified, he backs away
and I know I can knock him out
I wake up relieved it was
just a dream
I’m too old to be acting crazy
or trying to knock people out.
Bob Boyd
In a dream I had last night
I saw fire burst out of a cell phone
I saw a building engulfed in flames
fortunately the dream won’t be prophetic
I don’t dream precognitive dreams.
Bob Boyd
When I was in the Air Force decades ago
after basic training I was told to select
where I wanted to be stationed next
I had two choices: I picked England or Japan,
but as usually is the case, you don’t get
either one.
I was sent to Zweibruecken, Germany instead
I was single and in my late teens then and
dreamed of having an exotic girlfriend,
an English or a Japanese one in either order
though while in Germany, I got to see Paris
and Rome, and a pope in a balcony,
I never made it to England or Japan
and never found an exotic girlfriend,
which back then, wild as I was,
was probably for the best.
Bob Boyd
Some people are about
small talk all or most of
the time
they seem able to small
talk almost incessantly
some hang out in places
where they small talk
for hours
me, I couldn’t do that
I’d get too bored
except with a woman
I loved
I could listen to her
small talk endlessly
as if her words
were the most important
words on the planet
as if her words
were like the words from
an angel talking to me
I guess love can make
small talk as big and
as wonderful as if the
words poured right
out of the heavens –
at least for me.
Bob Boyd
Do we meet people in dreams
that we never met before?
Sometimes I think we might,
that maybe dreams intersect.
I’ve seen many people in dreams
that I never knew in this world.
I’ve wondered if they were real
people who were seeing me
in the dream too.
But unaware that they
were as real as me.
Then again, are these people
living in this world, or on
another plane of existence,
or are they all imaginary?
I’ve seen deceased people
I knew in a couple of dreams.
I believe those were more
than ordinary dreams
I think they were ADCs,
After Death Communications.
I’ve often seen attractive
women in dreams, never
erotic, sometimes romantic,
and wondered if there are
any people who have
real romances in dreams,
like real dream lovers.
Maybe dreams are just
dreams, but I believe
dreams are sometimes more
than just dreams.
Bob Boyd