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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • Aging With Algorithms

    This is better than I thought being all caught up in medleys and genres of everything I’ve never heard before. It used to be classics, old staples I was listening to before I found everything all wrapped up in a package of what I like without knowing it. Now I just know it. Don’t even…

  • The Happy Idiot

    You know, I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t ask to be the voice of an idiot telling smart people how to communicate within their own space when nobody else is in it. When we are alone and vulnerable, images we admire come into focus through banter that is not decipherable because of the rustling…

  • Sincerely, AI

    Here AI, here.  Pick me. Pick me.   Take this and write from it.  Tell me what to say as if it were perfect.  Take over this poem.  Choose me to write from, to write for, to write for free.  I am writing to you.  You are writing for me.  Pick me or go away.  You…

  • I’m Not My Father

    You were carefree, just being yourself in that photo from long ago, sitting at the table in a fringe coat with long hair and beard smiling like a Japanese bass player with hands clasped at your chin sending reverb over decades in a still shot. You laughed when I showed you the photo saying something…

  • In Dog Years

    I was found at twenty after being lost for some time, seeing the horizon under my feet, people I care about walking with me parallel to the street. Other pedestrians walked like sophisticated dogs, wagging for attention as they hurried by in droves. I walked mighty with my nose to the sky, my eyes fixed…