Francis Erich McElroy
Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.
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Albuquerque I – Exploring Change
I am here to tell the truth so that when I look back on my life I don’t regret that for over half of it I was numb to the fact that I can write well. I am writing what I know. Whether I am describing a structure that surrounds me or the construct of…
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Chicago II – Connected By Entertainment
Buzzing around Chicago on public transportation with the blues again, finding ways to get by on stockkeeper wages, was not how those students at the University of Chicago existed. I used to play this game at Central Michigan, my alma mater, where I would know what the teacher was saying as they said it, as…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
