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