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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • A Small Impact (Interpreting Visual Art – Photography)

    We have become blood sucking fleas on the backs of malnourished animals while ironically riding bicycles through the dying forests of our neglected planet.  Photograph by Augustus Cantamessa, Brief Horizon, 1955

  • Return Home When the Streetlights Come On

    A schizophrenic walks into a bar, past the bar and exits the bar out the back door. He doesn’t want to drink but just to blend-in as if everybody doesn’t know him already, the latest casualty to psychedelics. Before performing as a normal alcoholic he needs to know if the sound of clinking glasses is…

  • I Don’t Like Atoms

    If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? I would like to put a stop to falling apples. I would silence anyone who makes a dastardly assumption that fruit from a tree is somehow responsible for modern science being tied to anything outside of this planet.  If fruit…

  • Time Management of a Poet

    If you were smart, for the next hour, you would be doing what you thought needed to be done this hour during the last hour while you were doing what was necessary, decided from the hour previously.   If you were a genius you would take the next minute to think long and hard about each…

  • Cat Door (Interpreting Visual Art – Photography)

    My cat has figured out that there is a way to get around our sterile, empty apartment because there are more than just four white walls. There are shades of gray around each corner that lead to other rooms. She has learned that if you keep one eye on the nearest wall at the hallway…