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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • 4 – The Hospital

    The type of animal that I saw in the mirror every morning in the hospital was close to the chimpanzee but something more bipedal. The last one in a long line of chimps but first from the right on the chart of evolution. God’s favorite. The human being. If God has a long white beard…

  • 3 – The Classroom

    I was like a disheveled rainbow child whose name should’ve been Rain. I tried to learn from traveling and the streets, the inner workings of the world but I didn’t have a vision or even a simple plan. I had the more complex idea to take another run at college. They said my peers were…

  • 2 – The Trailer

    The trailer was a lonely man’s hell hole where nobody could escape without invisible wounds. It was my trailer, where the impossibility to study was brought on by disparity in character but also boisterous low flying war planes that would swoop down as slowly as they could while I barely slept, watching the action from…

  • 1 – The Library

    When I was in my twenties I was searching for this one complex man with a familiar face I saw in the college library who was shocked by the computer screen before him. I figured he wasn’t shocked by what was on the screen but in awe of the computer itself. I was intrigued by…

  • Me Neither

    Have you ever noticed that people change but the DJ stays the same? It’s the same with the weather changing but the weather person never misses a beat.  Have you ever noticed that if you are paying total attention to a movie the writers will find a way to include you in the story, but…