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- “Not Trying to be a Dick” (definition of narcissism)
- “Sorry” Won’t Suffice (it’s not always about you)
- *ah-ha* moment
- *Misc* and Bullshit
- 15 seconds of life
- 257 friends invited
- 2FA
- 5 gratitudes
- A Chemistry of Spirits (memories and conversations)
- A Dangerous View (#29 snowbird)
- a drift
- A Few Lurid Details (quest for love)
- A Gigantic Cock (in the front yard)
- A Glass of Ennui
- A Hunger Unquenched (battle mountain)
- A Light Heavyweight
- a little bit about energy
- a little time
- A Moment Frozen in Time (the divorce brochure)
- A Parade of Young Women…
- a poet?
- a prawn
- A Room Full of Stars
- A Shrinking Discovery (eco-health update)
- A Slow Bleeding Out (lover’s leap)
- A Spiritual Awakening
- a swarm of letters
- a tiny bit about l o v e
- a word and (a poem)
- Accidental Drag Show (and bingo)
- across the city
- Acting As If…
- Adjusting Expectations
- Adrift Through Intersections of Life
- ai e io
- ai liminosity
- Alexa Has Left the Building (spy bots)
- Alexa Is Running the Show (adverse intelligence)
- alive with pleasure
- All Is Lost
- all is possible
- All the White Horses Have Been Taken
- all too much
- aloneliness
- Alt Data Sources and Ideas
- alt timeline: i am a cat
- Ambien and Me (closing moments of a relationship)
- Amidst the Joy of the Holidays
- Among the Living
- an aspiration
- An Auspicious Beginning
- an error occurred
- An Ongoing Malfunction
- and now?
- and she was
- And the player was love. (meta meta meta)
- And… Smile
- Angel’s Flight
- Angry Muscles (passing by)
- any and all
- Apple Developer Demo Leads to Biggest Breakthrough Ever
- ArtistsWay with AI Course Outline
- ArtistsWay.AI
- as the night cools
- Asimov’s Dream (tennis fetish)
- Asking for a Friend
- aspirational unavailable perfect
- Astrid Slipping
- At peace in the chaos
- At Some Moment In Time
- At the Dawn of AI
- Attachment Parenting, Or Else…
- Austin’s Own…
- Back On the Chain Gang
- Be Well and Beautiful
- Beauty In the Breakdown
- Becoming Vapor
- Behind My House (rain for days)
- behind this window of sorrow
- Beneath the Wind Turbines
- better let you go
- Between Me & Nothing
- beyond the frame
- bird
- biscuits
- Bitch, Please!
- Bite Down On This
- Black Out Prayers
- blasting my enemies with poetry
- Blessing In This
- Blood Lust (thanksgiving)
- Blooming
- blue light
- Blue Man Shopping (what’s the big idea)
- Bodhisattva’s Bookshelf
- boomland
- bots are on the move
- Breached
- Breaking Point
- breathing underwater
- brené brown’s divorce
- Bringing Fire
- broken holiday
- Call of the Big City (seeking a moment)
- Catskill Coffee
- change of plans
- Change of Plans
- change of plans again
- Chasing the Sun
- church of boob
- Cimarron (My Last Good Summer)
- Circulating With the Beautiful People
- Clearing the Cache
- Climbing Up That Hill
- code word
- coffee
- Coffee and Air Conditioning (baby, it’s hot outside)
- Cold Dead Hands
- Colleagues
- Come To Jesus
- compassion is all-inclusive
- Conflict at Work
- contact john oakley mcelhenney
- contemplating the mess of things
- country road big sky and you
- Couple Things (about facebook)
- CR8V.AI
- cracking open
- crickets
- Crushing Static (torture and teeth)
- Curtain Call
- Cut Free
- Daily Drunk (one more)
- dames
- Dance Lesson No. 2 (smooth jazz)
- Dark Thirty
- Data Cube Discovery
- Dead End (Black Ice)
- dead end investigation
- Deep Fake (looking in the wrong places)
- deep learning
- Delays Expected (I have something to show you)
- Delivered
- derived value
- Despite All My Rage
- Detailed Timeline of the *hyper-soul* Universe
- Did you find everything you were looking for?
- disconnected happiness
- Disconnected Lines of Inquiry
- Discovery (core drive)
- disillusionist
- Doing What You Hate (emotional variability)
- don’t think about that
- Dooms of Love
- down the tubes
- down together
- dream of little significance
- Dreaming In Code (my son)
- Drinks Unhinged (and singing)
- drug of choice
- Duplicate Living
- each broadcast
- Early Riser (at the end of a marriage)
- ebullient
- Ecstacy of St. Francis (gentle mystic)
- elevation
- Elixir
- Eloquence Lost (creative happiness)
- Encouraging Everyone
- End of the Carnival
- Endless Minutes
- engineering
- escape syndrome
- escape velocity
- Escape Velocity (darkness visible)
- Escaping
- Escaping the corporate climb
- Every Donut Not Eaten (missing pieces)
- Every Moment’s A Little Bit Later
- Everybody Has a Plan Until . . .
- Everybody Hurts
- Everybody Hurts Sometimes
- Exeter Resources, Images, References
- Exhuming the Tomb
- exit stage left (last flight of “the rocket”)
- extraordinary damage
- Eye of the Golden Doodle
- eyes open
- Failing Leadership Resurfaces
- Falkner or Salinger?
- fall
- falling forward
- Falling Ill at 15 Years Old: The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- Family Secrets
- Farewells
- Fascination
- Father Son and Father Gone
- feel the rain
- Feeling Strangely Fine
- Felipé In My Garden
- Fern (is an adult)
- Finding quiet
- finding shade
- Fire Alarm (what’s the emergency?)
- fires from long ago
- First Black Moment
- Flawed Treasure Maps (near misses at happiness)
- Fleet of Teslas (driving and crying)
- flicker of mind
- Fly Away Home
- Folding Her Clothes and Folding My Desire
- follow your discomfort
- Forced Reconfiguration
- Forget the Last Thing I Said (self)
- Forgetting the Danger (icy water)
- Forgetting the Danger (icy water)
- Fragments of the Lie
- Friends On the Path
- frodo
- From the Flip Side (manager miscue)
- Fruit-Striped (dad’s snack)
- Full Stop
- g*d dmt
- Game Theory
- General Anesthesia
- Generational Wealth (preschool friends)
- Get What I Deserve
- GetBuzzie
- Getting Back to One
- GF 1 (a lion tattoo)
- ghost in the shell
- Ghost of a Chance
- Girl from the Ashram
- Girl in the Pool (am I high or dreaming)
- girl in waves
- Give Up Now (not Lassy)
- giving permission
- Gladiator USA Jr. (unlimited)
- Glitch Girl
- Go Your Own Way
- going to be honest for a second
- Golden Porsche King
- Gone to the Dogs (who’s in charge?)
- good energy, thank you
- good morning love
- good to see you too, she said
- gorgeous witch
- Grandmother’s House
- GRAPHIC NOVEL: A Glitch Discovered
- GRAPHIC NOVEL: I *was* an English Teacher
- GRAPHIC NOVEL: Lady In Black Goes Missing
- GRAPHIC NOVEL: Scurrying Into the Darkness
- GRAPHIC NOVEL: Who Is CR8V.AI?
- Great American Coming of Age (work in progress)
- Greeting my enemies
- Greetings From the Outside World
- Happy Cashier Podcast – Reflecting on the new beginning
- happy robot poetry
- Hawk Power (tennis fetish)
- He Is Dead
- hear now be
- hearing damage
- Heart On (client-therapist privilege)
- Heaven Is a Place (opening gambit of love)
- Heavy
- Help Identifying the Protagonist
- her beside me
- her essence
- Her Love Was Strong (what are you drinking?)
- Her Woo-Woo Therapist (had an answer)
- here now be
- here’s where things are
- Higher Than Anyone
- Hippies – the next generation
- hippies here
- His Dad Was Different (and alive)
- Hit By a Bus
- Ho-Dad: Journals of John McElhenney and His Father
- hold up
- Holding Space (an inhospitable place)
- Holy Man at the supermarket cash register
- Hot Tub in the Rain (plateau of hope)
- How Can I Express the Darkness?
- How Can You Help But Fall In Love?
- How Did You Find Me Here?
- how i remember her
- How It Ends for Us
- How Long Do We Spend Mourning Our Dead Facebook Friends? (requiem)
- How This Will Go Down
- How to fight loneliness
- how to let you go
- How To Walk With Joy
- human happiness
- hyper*threading
- i am an L3M
- i am beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry
- i am beginning to tell the truth and i’m sorry
- i am calm i am storm
- I am here
- i am not responsible any more
- i am the poet of desire (poetry collection)
- I Become Small and Go
- I Can Be Whatever You Want (beginning and ending)
- i can see myself
- i can’t
- i cannot buy any more *ai* domains
- i didn’t ask
- I Do Know It’s Me (naturally high)
- I Don’t Have Orgasms, She Said (online hookup)
- I Don’t Wanna Be Here Anymore
- i drink winds
- i find her
- I Have An Issue With Jesus
- i imagine
- i know the time is not right for us
- I Know You Are Lying
- i may never escape this room
- I Need a New Best Friend
- I resist what I cannot change
- I See You
- i should take up running
- i think the moon may be god to me
- i unfold myself too quickly
- i want hair like rhett miller
- I Want to Disappear (final respects)
- i want to live
- i wanted to be everywhere at once
- I Write (to prove something)
- I’ll Drive
- i’m the cat
- I’ve Got Something For You
- i’ve got to go
- I’ve Missed You
- I’ve Seen All Good People (in Teslas)
- i’m about half as tired
- i’m going to bleed
- i’ve set myself on fire
- i/o
- if a poet on a winter’s night – introduction
- If I Could Talk I’d Tell You (she forgot to mention)
- If That One Thing Had Not Happened (things would be…)
- If We All Pull Together
- If we’re not able to laugh at ourselves
- if you wait
- if you walk into a bookstore
- Imaginary Girl (spider & snake)
- Imaginary Life (all there is)
- imagine the ending
- Imagine Your Movie
- imagining
- Impatience (in a mood)
- In 1973
- In Between Days
- In Other Words (duo lingo)
- in the dead of winter
- in the distance
- in the last moments on earth
- in the moment of leaving
- in the place of loss and loneliness
- in the shade
- in this same moment
- Inconceivable (our manny)
- Influencers & Broadcasters (tweet me)
- Inner Stillness
- instead
- Interleaving Crime, Punishment, and Ecstasy
- International Cat Day (laughing with the dogs)
- Into The Infinite Night
- Intoxicating Kisses (something is broken)
- is a poet?
- isle of gelato
- it finally stopped raining
- It Took Her A While (to leave)
- It’s Gonna End In Tears
- jackery
- Je m’amuse
- jesters and geniuses
- Jettison Fury (parenting in time and space)
- Json and Algo
- just a second
- Just Because You Feel It
- just before or just after
- Just In Time for the Butterflies (every ending is a new beginning)
- Just Like Eating a Banana (just a banana story)
- just outside of your front door
- just outside of your front door
- Just show up
- Killing Christmas
- Killing Starlings (we’re all mad here)
- Killing Time
- King of the Short-Short Story (ain’t me)
- L.O.S.
- lady in the grid
- language : love : filter
- Last Message from the AI Lab
- last poet
- Lasting Image of Her
- lean in and or away
- Learning Loneliness (seeking my own adventure)
- Learning To Dream
- Learning to Read
- Learning To Write
- Leave Behind Team
- leaving myself
- Leaving or Leaving Nothing Unsaid
- leaving us
- Let It Die
- let the song go
- Letting go of other paths
- letting me go
- Letting the Cables Sleep
- liar
- lie within
- light around us
- like insurance?
- liminal
- liminal drawing
- liminal station
- Liminal Uncertainty
- limited supply
- limitless
- listen to the sound of my voice
- Listen to the Sound of My Voice (illuminating ghosts)
- listening for silence
- Little Flutters in My Heart
- living
- llm of me
- looking down
- Looking for Something To Do
- Losing Eva (i tried to be nice)
- losing lovers over time
- Losing Momentum At Work
- Losing My Dad
- losing resting recovering
- Losing the path forward
- losing the thread
- Loss of Great Expectations
- Loss of Signal
- lost again in tokyo
- Lost in This Big Sky
- Love is what you bring
- Love Letter to My Ex-Wife
- love poem on demand
- loved you
- Lover Falls (everyone loves a puppy)
- Loving In Spite of It All
- Low Lights
- luxury apartments
- magnetic tagging
- magnetic tagging of my bloodstream
- marketing mindfulness
- Mary Moon
- Massive Action
- May You Be Happy
- Maybe This Weight Is A Gift
- mecca
- mermaid or siren
- mindful : spiritual : god
- missed epiphanies
- misses
- missing
- missing title
- Misty Morning at the Lake (losing Vermont)
- Mixing Poisons
- mmm
- MNDFL MFKR: Say What?
- Moms Who… (funny or die)
- monetized:transactions
- Monkey in the Middle
- Mood Jacking
- Mood Swings
- moon aflame
- Morning Birdsong
- morning love :: end of line
- Morning Ritual (in my father’s house)
- Mortal Coils and All That (shuffling our decks)
- mourning pages
- mr. miyagi has left the santa fe mcdonald’s
- Multiple Trajectories
- Music In the Car (Asimov’s gambit)
- must be hard to understand
- mvp and the call center collapse
- My *tribe*
- My AI Girlfriend (how do I say…)
- My AI Lover (wifi passwords)
- My Brain Stopped Working: The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- My Fourth Angel
- my girlfriend is magic
- My Moment In Time
- My Reset: Taking Stock
- My Understanding
- mystical realism
- nadir
- Native Texan (before AC)
- Neuroplasticity (and affirmations)
- Never Felt Better
- never give up
- Never Made It (beyond words)
- no attachment
- no heat
- no longer a seeker of love
- no reason for joy
- no rescue
- no return from murano
- No Snow On the Mountain
- Noise-cancelling Headphones
- Non-Binary Ambition (hip bones)
- not all the same
- not enough kisses
- Not feeling well
- not going
- not hard to understand
- Not Killing Myself
- Not Lake People (outdoor adventure)
- Not Much of a Drinker (developing a taste)
- not one
- Nothing On Pornhub (lesbian tendencies)
- nothing she could tell me
- nothing survived
- november snow in paris
- Now That I’ve Danced Myself Out of the Room (missing the big love)
- Nuts Roasted (overnight)
- Office 365 Almost Gets Smart (my AI)
- Oh My God, What Have I Done?
- Oh, Hello
- oh, right… yoga
- Ominous Clouds Ahead
- One Lie To Live
- One Tangerine in Chinatown
- one was me
- Only a Week Since My Lover Left (breakups are confusing)
- open road ahead
- Open-sourced AI Lies
- opened books
- Orbiting a Dying Sun
- orchestration of desire
- Our Human Condition
- Our Human Connection
- Our Human Understanding of God
- Our Orientation to the Stars
- out here
- out of frame
- out of frame
- Out of the Loop (passing shots)
- Out the Window (harbinger of pain)
- Outline, Timeline, Cast of Characters for *hyper-soul*
- outside
- over and under
- overnight bliss
- overrun
- particle or wave
- patterns
- perched
- Pick and Choose (fatherless)
- Pick Your Poisons
- ping
- Pixels of You (single dad and his daughter)
- Plan B On the Beach
- please come along
- Please, Let Me Go Home
- poem to remind myself
- poet laureate of *ai*
- poetic
- poetlaureate.ai
- poetry dog
- poetry is invisible
- poetry school
- poetry: it’s easy
- Points of Light
- pop tart principles
- PopTarts
- Positive Spin
- Powerful Life and Powerful Lessons
- prayers answered : shot fired
- Preamble 2024: The Resistance Begins
- Predawn Waking
- Pressure of Starlight (losing my head)
- pretty artist
- pretty girls get no rest
- Privacy Rising (your phone is bleeding)
- Private Grief
- prompt:
- quiet is a moment
- r d
- rain in my head
- random access memories
- Rather Not Write About Her (seeking release)
- Ready, Fire, Aim
- Reality Distortion Field
- Reality Porn
- Rebranding Jesus
- receptive
- Recovery and Reconstitution
- recurring dream
- Reflections on the End – 0.5
- regenerative
- Resetting Serenity
- results amount
- ring rain
- rip-roaring fury of fun
- Rising from the bottom
- rolling selfie
- Room In Your Backpack for the Devil
- Saddest Maserati (in the rain)
- Sadness Breaking Through
- Satellites of Love (aglow in orbit)
- Saying “I’m Sorry” Doesn’t Make it Better (don’t ask me again)
- Scurrying Into the Darkness
- Second Date
- see you on the flipside
- See You On the Flipside
- Seeing It Through to the End
- seeking and finding
- seeking without understanding
- Serenity Now
- sex and coffee
- sf moma exhibit: woman
- Shady MFKR
- shamrock travel
- she appears
- she disappeared
- She Had Everything (seeing red)
- she is the sea
- she swims away
- she takes her shirt off
- she was
- She’s Gone – Three Versions of the Classic
- sheer pleasure
- shift my soul
- Shopping As Entertainment
- Short-Short Stories
- Skedaddle (on the volcano)
- slip sliding away
- slipped out of time
- Slipping Into Something Old and Dark
- sliver moon
- Smoke From a Distant Fire
- snowfall
- so dramatic
- software up-to-date
- Something In the Way (let’s stay home tonight)
- son en somnio
- Songs and Magical Musical Mysteries
- Sons and Lovers (i still dream of your kiss)
- Sorry, Yes (a shaggy dog story)
- soul:happy burst one
- soul:happy burst one
- soul:happy exploration
- SoulTime
- Southern Charmer
- Speaking the truth about love and laughter
- specific sequences
- spirit of place
- spitting fire
- Split Test
- Sprint By Sprint (rehoming)
- stars
- Start at the Ending (don’t spoil it for me)
- Staying In My Lane
- STFU
- streaming now
- stripping down to null
- Stupid Money (driving school teslas)
- Sublingual (word seeking)
- sugar response
- Suicide Is Painless
- summer at lake camp
- sun dance
- superfluous
- Survival (online dating — first date)
- Surviving Depression: The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- Swan Dive Out
- Swarm
- Swirling Whirl of Endings
- Tales of the Tilted Planet (drinking water)
- Tall Tales and Tiny Lies
- Tapering Ecstasy
- tarot of loving
- tasting snow
- tasting stars
- Telling Detail (that’s Mr. Bradbury to you)
- Temporary Shuffle
- texting
- The 30 seconds we spend together is enough
- The Adventures of Sid and Hunter
- The Beautiful Rao
- the big slide
- The Bridge
- the carnival of happiness will continue
- the cat is outside the window
- The Compassion Expression
- The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- The Dumb Stuff I’m Gonna Do Today (you?)
- The Empty Home of a Heart in Trouble* (love has nothing to do with it)
- The End Again
- the end of poetry
- The Eyes Have It (lethal moments)
- the farther i fall
- The First Man of Letters (soft porn)
- The Future Is An Attitude (life at altitude)
- the gun was loaded, safety off
- The Happy Cashier
- The Happy Cashier 2nd
- the heart is an odd engine
- The Hidden Message (previous lovers)
- The High Way (#35 a new puppy)
- the language of god
- The Last Amazing Cat (me and my shadow)
- The Last Known Poet (tweets to no one)
- The Last Thing I Said
- The Last Time I Told You ‘I Love You’
- The Listeners
- The Longest Last Winter Together (losing my head)
- The Luckiest Man Alive (is this your dog?)
- The Lunatics Have Taken Over
- The Metaverse Describes Itself (ChatGPT as Hunter S. Thompson)
- the microcosm of me
- The Million Pillow Mountain
- The Monkeypox Roundtable (a girl with ja wobble)
- The Moody Blues
- The Mosquito (losing blood)
- the most beautiful girl is okay
- The Most Beautiful Girl’s Sadness (#32 her hair, her hair was alive)
- The Oddest Thing (practically sane)
- the paradox of today
- The Ping is the Thing (are you receiving me?)
- The Pipes Might Burst (frigid winter storm)
- The Prozac Miracle
- The Second Coming (Jesus.AI)
- the sigh of a dog
- The Softest Seduction
- The Sun Is Not Gone
- The Texas Good ‘ol Boy Network
- The Unbearable Weight of Things
- The Value of Our Time
- The Year His Leg Broke
- There Were No Wise Men (two asses talking)
- there will be days
- Things I Thought Don’t Make Sense Anymore
- Things That Make You Go, “Hmm.”
- This Checkout Life
- this is how to breathe
- This Is Not What Depression Looks Like
- This is our time
- this is what i do
- this is what i do
- This Remains a Love Story (she’s around)
- This unstable time in America
- this will kill me
- Threading
- Threading a Dangerous Needle
- threads and bloodlines
- Tik and Tok Join the Quest
- TikTok Knocking (dancing around the data)
- time to go
- time to loaf
- Time to make the donuts
- Time:Now
- today is the last day
- too fast then too slow then gone
- top of the world
- trail of flaming stars
- Translation Not Found (vacation complications)
- transmission
- transmissions
- Traveling Alone
- trending in the right direction
- Trip with My Dad (Fear and Loathing in Texas)
- Trying to explain myself
- tuckered out
- Two Senses Clash (anesthesia)
- Unavoidable Trouble (musical cutie)
- under the bridge
- Under the Volcano
- understanding more or less
- undress
- unitive
- Unlocking Human Creativity
- Unpacking The Prozac Miracle
- Unsweetened
- Until We’re High Together Again
- Unwavering Band of Light
- Up and Out
- up in the air
- up the mountain
- use coupon code love
- Vape Vape Everything’s Fine (addiction)
- Vaporized
- violà
- Wait Until You See What Happens Next
- Walk of Emmaus (contemporary hymns)
- Walking Along the Edge (snow blind)
- walking in new york with the one you love
- walking isolation
- War 3.0 (nanO)
- Watering the Lawn
- We All Fall Down
- We All Know Who We Are By Now
- we were lost
- we’d make great friends
- We’re All Mad Now
- We’ll Always Have NOLA (drinks in the quarter)
- Weightless
- Werewolf (the youngest child)
- wh@t?
- what about all the cats
- What Do You Want from Life?
- what i am saying – what am i saying – i don’t know
- What Is It About New York? (aspirational growth)
- What Is Your Deepest Intention? (I’ve been good too long)
- What The Fuck Is My Problem?
- What We Learn From the Dead
- what’s taken out
- When In Paris (portrait of the artist)
- When You Believe There Are No Accidents (synchronicity)
- Where Christmas Died
- Where Do We Go From Here?
- Where do you find love and happiness?
- where have you gone
- Where Were You While We Were Getting High
- whispering to the stars
- White Ennui (a good job)
- White Noise
- who i want to be
- Why Am I Here? (introduction)
- Wifi Access (what humans overlooked)
- Windshield of Life
- winter berries
- with the donkeys
- without : poetry (an un-poetry collection)
- woman on cloud
- Woman Overwhelmed (furious patience)
- wonder what darkness
- word by word
- Working For Benefits
- Wrestling Ghosts
- Write Your Heart Out (and the day job)
- writer at rest
- Year In Rock Challenge (my life)
- years of falling
- You Are All You Need
- you got me all wrong
- You Know They Put Wires In Your Heart, Right? (carto vizigo)
- You Make Me Google
- You Tell Me
- You’re Gonna Wish You Were Here
- You’re On Mute (online dating)
- your brain
- Your Halo Is Not Here (two women)
- Zero Trust
- Zoom In (the writer’s room)