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I’ve moved my creative content from johnmcelhenney.com to this new home mcelhenney.net to better serve my audience and my professional career. Below is the index of pages by title. You can hit [CMD] F and search for a word and find what you were seeking. Thank you for your continuing your journey of discovery. I’m here if you need me. -JMac
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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