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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • Anxiety

    Sometimes when I sit and think, it’s too much for me. To sit and think is too much for anybody. To really sit and think puts too much time on my hands. Sitting and thinking gives me too much time to think about sitting…and thinking. Thinking about sitting is thinking too much. It looks to…

  • Near Pointless Poem

    I can’t feel the fire. I don’t have a single thought inside my head. I can’t resolve the words I heard today or make sense of what I’ve said. I don’t want to know more than what I’ve heard for years. I can’t tell much more than what’s been put through both my ears. I…

  • Growing Old With Purpose

    I’m growing old. The eyes I look into remind me that I’m tired. The eyes I avoid remind me that I’m not dead.  I’m growing older.  The way I’m able to hold my family together and get up on time for work, hold my head up for eight hours and do the things I need…

  • The Nice and Quiet Bigot

    A highly riddled man walks into a restaurant in America for a bowl of curry. He is seated at a table by the front door. A door he has walked through a dozen times before. So many times that he notices the menu has changed, not the food but the format.  He is visiting the…

  • The Sacred Vessel – Fraudulent Monarchy

    Kneeling by stream water to swill out the sacred wine vessel with water I see my reflection in nature as a Tudor but with no real desire to sit high on the hill as a monarch or even kneel before those I would later betray for golden horizons as a perceived pauper. Next time, when…