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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • A Proper War for a Copper Coin

    I am passionately rewarded, having divvied my time immersed in ageless squalor, awarding ambition by gathering the collars of sordid men impudent in their comedy with dire truth in pointless prophetic consequences, defaced, penniless, treading their feet short of honor, making all this nonsense afforded, a lack of emotion by severing a balance in character,…

  • Metamorphosis and Dual Diagnosis

    Let me segue back into this part of my life by saying you carry the blues with you wherever you go. At some point I’m going to have to discuss why my experience with dual diagnosis was not drug induced psychosis. The real simple answer is that I didn’t use drugs but a few times…

  • Chicago I – The Color of Boredom

    Chicago is the city where I was just a seed in a wheat field being swayed by wind, swirling within golden waves of a million clusters which would one day be milled into bread. Why not? Bread and wine filled me up quite a bit on my travels. After my backpacking trip to Europe, which…

  • Ireland II – Self Discovery and the Courage to Know

    It’s fitting that twenty five years ago around this date on Thanksgiving I was in Ireland away from my family. If someone told me twenty five years ago I would one day have a family of my own I wouldn’t have been surprised. If that same person told me I was going to be battling…

  • Ireland

    So with happiness in my heart I hopped onto a Ferry headed to Cork, a coincidental name. It seemed appropriate enough, since I didn’t drink wine too heavily in Paris, beer would be okay for me and cheaper, grainier, more filling. The boat was definitely going towards my destination because the shore had become an…