Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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Write Outside
How do you write what people actually want to read? Write the way you could speak if you didn’t have to use the people in front of you as a sounding board for your intellect but instead use the people behind you as an antenna for your emotions. Write like somebody is watching your thoughts…
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Peace Poem
I want to crumble but it would be insane. One big piece into smaller and smaller pieces, into a heaping pile of peace and then I’d be done. Until I am broken I can’t be whole, the forgiven one. I can drop to my knees, reach to the sky but I can’t do both and…
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The Urgency To Fly
The urgency to get away has lifted but the stillness is a trap. How many leaves will it take to make it snap? Another winter ahead of me with nowhere to go, just comes to a draw with all that I know. There is little life left for the seeds of today when the soil…
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Atlas Drugged
Thirty years ago I took an oath to uphold the constitution of my body and mind by choosing to forever take medicine that matches my brain chemistry so I would no longer think I was the eternal ruler of all distinguished men, indistinguishable from me but distinguishable from God. I still take it every day.…
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The Cause
I went skiing last night on sand with no skis right to a ledge where I witnessed someone fall without causing it. I was accused of being somewhere I wasn’t invited after being invited so I skated away without skates. I came upon an encampment of police at the base of a concrete mountain that…
