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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • 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…

  • Blood for Oil and Fuel for Thought

    Who has the limpest rocket? Who has the most strategic hand? Who has the hardest surface to stop bombs where they land?  Who says the cartels are terrorists? Who says that China wants us dead? Who says to kill a giant you need to lop off its opulent head?  Who wants to stop the violence?…

  • A Thorn Defends the Rose

    Who decides where  a word goes In poetry  when there is no  matter And who knows when   to place it         here to make the poem seem badder when the words sound about right call a bigger rose fatter  Take the word rose at the start Sounds like clatter Put it at the end you made …