index of writing by john oakley mcelhenney (by title)
Posts
- “I Don’t Have Orgasms,” She Said (online hookup)
- “Not Trying to be a Dick” (definition of narcissism)
- “Sorry” Won’t Suffice (it’s not always about you)
- *ah-ha* moment
- 15 seconds of life
- 257 friends invited
- 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 little bit about energy
- A Moment Frozen in Time (the divorce brochure)
- a poet?
- a prawn
- A Shrinking Discovery (eco-health update)
- A Slow Bleeding Out (lover’s leap)
- a swarm of letters
- a word and (a poem)
- Accidental Drag Show (and bingo)
- across the city
- Adjusting Expectations
- ai e io
- ai liminosity
- Alexa Has Left the Building (spy bots)
- Alexa Is Running the Show (adverse intelligence)
- alive with pleasure
- Ambien and Me (closing moments of a relationship)
- an aspiration
- An Auspicious Beginning
- an error occurred
- and she was
- And the player was love. (meta meta meta)
- Angel’s Flight
- Angry Muscles (passing by)
- any and all
- Apple Developer Demo Leads to Biggest Breakthrough Ever
- as the night cools
- Asimov’s Dream (tennis fetish)
- At Some Moment In Time
- Austin’s Own…
- Becoming Vapor
- Behind My House (rain for days)
- behind this window of sorrow
- better let you go
- beyond the frame
- bird
- biscuits
- Bite Down On This
- blasting my enemies with poetry
- Blood Lust (thanksgiving)
- blue light
- Blue Man Shopping (what’s the big idea)
- boomland
- bots are on the move
- Breaking Point
- breathing underwater
- brené brown’s divorce
- Bringing Fire
- Call of the Big City (seeking a moment)
- change of plans
- Change of Plans
- change of plans again
- church of boob
- Cimarron (My Last Good Summer)
- code word
- coffee
- Coffee and Air Conditioning (baby, it’s hot outside)
- Cold Dead Hands
- Come To Jesus
- compassion is all-inclusive
- contact john oakley mcelhenney
- Couple Things (about facebook)
- CR8V.AI
- cracking open
- Crushing Static (torture and teeth)
- Curtain Call
- Daily Drunk (one more)
- Dance Lesson No. 2 (smooth jazz)
- Dead End (D. H. Lawrence is not here)
- dead end investigation
- Deep Fake (looking in the wrong places)
- deep learning
- Delays Expected (I have something to show you)
- derived value
- Discovery (core drive)
- disillusionist
- Doing What You Hate (emotional variability)
- don’t think about that
- down the tubes
- dream of little significance
- Dreaming In Code (my son)
- Drinks Unhinged (and singing)
- drug of choice
- each broadcast
- Early Riser (at the end of a marriage)
- ebullient
- Ecstacy of St. Francis (gentle mystic)
- elevation
- Eloquence Lost (creative happiness)
- engineering
- escape syndrome
- escape velocity
- Escape Velocity (darkness visible)
- Every Donut Not Eaten (missing pieces)
- Exeter Resources, Images, References
- Exhuming the Tomb
- exit stage left (last flight of “the rocket”)
- extraordinary damage
- Falkner or Salinger?
- Falling Ill at 15 Years Old: The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- Feeling Strangely Fine
- Fern (is an adult)
- 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
- follow your discomfort
- Forced Reconfiguration
- Forget the Last Thing I Said (self)
- Forgetting the Danger (icy water)
- frodo
- From the Flip Side (manager miscue)
- Fruit-Striped (dad’s snack)
- g*d dmt
- Generational Wealth (preschool friends)
- GF 1 (a lion tattoo)
- ghost in the shell
- Girl in the Pool (am I high or dreaming)
- girl in waves
- Give Up Now (not Lassy)
- giving permission
- Gladiator USA Jr. (unlimited)
- going to be honest for a second
- Gone to the Dogs (who’s in charge?)
- good energy, thank you
- good morning love
- good to see you too, she said
- Grandmother’s House
- Great American Coming of Age (work in progress)
- Greetings From the Outside World
- happy robot poetry
- Hawk Power (tennis fetish)
- Heart On (client-therapist privilege)
- Heaven Is a Place (opening gambit of love)
- her essence
- Her Love Was Strong (what are you drinking?)
- Her Woo-Woo Therapist (had an answer)
- here’s where things are
- Higher Than Anyone
- hippies here
- His Dad Was Different (and alive)
- Ho-Dad: Journals of John McElhenney and His Father
- Holding Space (an inhospitable place)
- Hot Tub in the Rain (plateau of hope)
- How Can I Express the Darkness?
- how i remember her
- How Long Do We Spend Mourning Our Dead Facebook Friends? (requiem)
- how to let you go
- 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 the poet of desire (poetry collection)
- I Can Be Whatever You Want (beginning and ending)
- i cannot buy any more *ai* domains
- i didn’t ask
- I Do Know It’s Me (naturally high)
- i drink winds
- i know the time is not right for us
- i may never escape this room
- 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’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 you walk into a bookstore
- Imaginary Girl (spider & snake)
- Imaginary Life (all there is)
- imagine the ending
- imagining
- Impatience (in a mood)
- In Other Words (duo lingo)
- in the dead of winter
- 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)
- International Cat Day (laughing with the dogs)
- Intoxicating Kisses (something is broken)
- is a poet?
- it finally stopped raining
- It Took Her A While (to leave)
- jackery
- jesters and geniuses
- Jettison Fury (parenting in time and space)
- Json and Algo
- just a second
- 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
- Killing Starlings (we’re all mad here)
- King of the Short-Short Story (ain’t me)
- L.O.S.
- lady in the grid
- language : love : filter
- last poet
- lean in and or away
- Learning Loneliness (seeking my own adventure)
- leaving us
- letting me go
- liar
- lie within
- like insurance?
- liminal
- liminal drawing
- limited supply
- limitless
- listen to the sound of my voice
- Listen to the Sound of My Voice (illuminating ghosts)
- Losing Eva (i tried to be nice)
- Losing My Dad
- losing the thread
- Loss of Great Expectations
- Loss of Signal
- love poem on demand
- loved you
- Lover Falls (everyone loves a puppy)
- luxury apartments
- magnetic tagging
- magnetic tagging of my bloodstream
- marketing mindfulness
- Mary Moon
- mecca
- mindful : spiritual : god
- missed epiphanies
- missing
- missing title
- Misty Morning at the Lake (losing Vermont)
- mmm
- MNDFL MFKR: Say What?
- Moms Who… (funny or die)
- monetized:transactions
- Mood Jacking
- Mood Swings
- moon aflame
- morning love :: end of line
- Morning Ritual (in my father’s house)
- Mortal Coils and All That (shuffling our decks)
- mr. miyagi has left the santa fe mcdonald’s
- Music In the Car (asimov’s gambit)
- must be hard to understand
- mvp and the call center collapse
- 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
- nadir
- Native Texan (before AC)
- Neuroplasticity (and affirmations)
- never give up
- Never Made It (beyond words)
- no heat
- no longer a seeker of love
- no rescue
- no return from murano
- Noise-cancelling Headphones
- Non-Binary Ambition (hip bones)
- not all the same
- not enough kisses
- not going
- Not Lake People (outdoor adventure)
- Not Much of a Drinker (developing a taste)
- Nothing On Pornhub (lesbian tendencies)
- nothing she could tell me
- nothing survived
- 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, right… yoga
- 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
- orchestration of desire
- out here
- out of frame
- Out of the Loop (passing shots)
- Out the Window (harbinger of pain)
- outside
- over and under
- particle or wave
- patterns
- perched
- Pick and Choose (fatherless)
- ping
- Pixels of You (single dad and his daughter)
- Please, Let Me Go Home
- poem to remind myself
- poet laureate of *ai*
- poetry dog
- poetry is invisible
- poetry: it’s easy
- pop tart principles
- prayers answered : shot fired
- Pressure of Starlight (losing my head)
- pretty artist
- Privacy Rising (your phone is bleeding)
- quiet is a moment
- r d
- rain in my head
- random access memories
- Rather Not Write About Her (seeking release)
- reboot
- receptive
- recurring dream
- Reflections on the End – 0.5
- regenerative
- results amount
- rip-roaring fury of fun
- rolling selfie
- Room In Your Backpack for the Devil
- Saddest Maserati (in the rain)
- Satellites of Love (aglow in orbit)
- Saying “I’m Sorry” Doesn’t Make it Better (don’t ask me again)
- Scurrying Into the Darkness
- see you on the flipside
- Seeing It Through to the End
- sex and coffee
- sf moma exhibit: woman
- shamrock travel
- she appears
- she disappeared
- She Had Everything (seeing red)
- she takes her shirt off
- she was
- sheer pleasure
- Short-Short Stories
- Skedaddle (on the volcano)
- slip sliding away
- slipped out of time
- 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
- Southern Charmer
- specific sequences
- spirit of place
- spitting fire
- Sprint By Sprint (rehoming)
- stars
- Start at the Ending (don’t spoil it for me)
- streaming now
- stripping down to null
- Stupid Money (driving school teslas)
- Sublingual (word seeking)
- sugar response
- sun dance
- Survival (online dating — first date)
- Surviving Depression: The Depression Journals of John McElhenney
- Tales of the Tilted Planet (drinking water)
- tarot of loving
- tasting snow
- tasting stars
- Telling Detail (that’s Mr. Bradbury to you)
- The Beautiful Rao
- the big slide
- The Bridge
- the carnival of happiness will continue
- the cat is outside the window
- 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 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 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 Listeners
- The Longest Last Winter Together (losing my head)
- The Luckiest Man Alive (is this your dog?)
- The Metaverse Describes Itself (ChatGPT as Hunter S. Thompson)
- The Monkeypox Roundtable (a girl with ja wobble)
- 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 Second Coming (Jesus.AI)
- the sigh of a dog
- There Were No Wise Men (two asses talking)
- there will be days
- Things I Thought Don’t Make Sense Anymore
- this is how to breathe
- this is what i do
- this is what i do
- This Remains a Love Story (she’s around)
- this will kill me
- threads and bloodlines
- TikTok Knocking (dancing around the data)
- time to go
- time to loaf
- Time:Now
- today is the last day
- trail of flaming stars
- Translation Not Found (vacation complications)
- transmissions
- trending in the right direction
- Trip with My Dad (Fear and Loathing in Texas)
- tuckered out
- Two Senses Clash (anesthesia)
- Unavoidable Trouble (musical cutie)
- understanding more or less
- unitive
- Unsweetened
- up the mountain
- Vape Vape Everything’s Fine (addiction)
- violà
- Walk of Emmaus (contemporary hymns)
- Walking Along the Edge (snow blind)
- walking in new york with the one you love
- War 3.0 (nanO)
- we’d make great friends
- We’ll Always Have NOLA (drinks in the quarter)
- Werewolf (the youngest child)
- wh@t?
- what about all the cats
- 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’s taken out
- When In Paris (portrait of the artist)
- When You Believe There Are No Accidents (synchronicity)
- where have you gone
- Where Were You While We Were Getting High
- whispering to the stars
- White Ennui (a good job)
- who i want to be
- Why Am I Here? (introduction)
- Wifi Access (what humans overlooked)
- winter berries
- with the donkeys
- without : poetry (an un-poetry collection)
- woman on cloud
- Woman Overwhelmed (furious patience)
- wonder what darkness
- word by word
- Wrestling Ghosts
- Write Your Heart Out (and the day job)
- writer at rest
- Year In Rock Challenge (my life)
- years of falling
- you got me all wrong
- You Know They Put Wires In Your Heart, Right? (carto vizigo)
- You’re On Mute (online dating)
- your brain
- Your Halo Is Not Here (two women)
- Zoom In (the writer’s room)
Pages
- Contact
- CR8V.AI
- creative output
- ehemingway.ai
- holdencaulfield.ai
- hyper-soul: pardon me, your metaverse is showing
- index
- JackKerouac.ai
- john oakley mcelhenney - poet | writer | singer | father
- kurtvonnegut.ai
- Mindfulness
- poetlaureate.ai
- Press of Light and Space
- sf alone and other writings
- Spinning the Globe: At the Dawn of the Internet We All Made Mistakes
- taylorsversion.ai
- The Dream Academy
- The Martian Dust Devils
- The Off Parent (a novel approach)
- the one and the zero
- thomyorke.ai
- Walt Whitman *ai* 2024
- Writenow.Group **Welcome to WriteNow**
- writer's notebook
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