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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

All I Want for Xmas

I was one of the ones who craved
religion without religion
 
This, apparently
was easy to arrange
 
But now that I’m longing for
the secular without religion
I’ve been informed
like the last kid who believes in Santa
that there’s no such thing

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Here’s an Easier One

Which came first The morals Or the justification Hint: The #1 excuse
10-4 Means Yes, but 10/7 Means Yes and No

If, after 10/7 you have the chutzpah to ask What just happened? their answer– It didn’t just happen–
An Indictment of All of Us

America’s belief system– The show must go on– comes into focus when you suspend disbelief Because it’s not about justice
Mao’s Little Red Facebook

Now that everyone else is also holier than thou Our far left raised the stakes becoming holier than Mao With slogans of piffle
The Flux Capacitor

If you travel through time it’s always the best of times and the worst of times; it’s just the ratio
There Is Only One Approach; Everything Else Is an Approach Angle

Paradoxically To approach perfection You need to make Really big mistakes Ironically
In the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve Ate Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; In the Fall of Cyborgs, We Just Fell Through a Hole

I’ve done the math and the whole is only greater than the sum of its parts when the group is made up of individuals
Who Controls the Future Controls the Present

If you can control the future through predictive policing– what the Department of Justice describes as “taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to ...
Belief in God Is Trusting You Can Make Meaning Out of Anything That’s Real

Art is where the Symbolic meets the Real forming a liminal space between meaning and its absence AI-generated art is where the Unr…
Why Life Is So Hard

I thought I was choosing between Life and death When really, I was choosing betwe… First and last place So, when I thought I chose life
Life at the Regent

We rent an apartment so my wife told me that technicall… I am the interim king of my own ca…
Our Descent Into Madness Is Believing We’ve Ascended Into the Cloud

The fog is so thick now We’re buried up to our necks in it Our bodies out of sight And out of mind Making the ground beneath our feet
Slowly but Slowly

But surely, you’ve noticed by now That all progress is incremental Across increments of time Because all progress is time-bound And the unfolding of time
The Truth Is Unimaginable Because It Is Unambiguous

A poem is like a dream In that it shows us the truth Without telling it Because, truth be told There’s no telling
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Free Will Rends the Future; Commitment Stitches a Suture

One person can never predict the future but two people can if they get married This is a clue



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