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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • For the Non-Believers

    I’m going to keep it real nice and simple. The reason I write the way I do is because I do not do enough talking. I think through these sentences while writing and change words around to make sense of a portrait inside my brain. Think of my writing as a sweaty window. To most…

  • Poetic Apology

    Oh whoa is me. I have a blank space here in front of me that needs to be filled by tapping poetry with the house tablet and a universal mind. I’ll have it filled out in no time. The only trouble I see for now is I have to jot other things down that I’m…

  • The Need for Cadmium Yellow

    Oh cadmium yellow now, call me back to those long distant sun reflected patches of green pasture upon brightened hilltops before mountains become cloud covered again to dull the hillside captured in paint for eternity all dried up before I have the chance to splatter titanium white upon thee in lieu of cadmium yellow for…

  • Significance is Everything but I am not

    What am I good at but running my mouth? Why do I keep quiet unless spoken to first?  Absolutely whatever I decide to write is sufficient to say because nobody ever talks to me about that.  I could write Donald Trump is awesome or love is a rose and I’d probably get more love than…

  • The Vitality of Being Nice

    I used to run around in my twenties saying mushrooms are good sport after I went on a heroic journey that left the automatic asshole in me behind only to be replaced by the trigger shy nice guy for a good solid decade. This turned out to be the greatest augmentation of somersaults inside my…