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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

American Commissar

The first thing you’re taught is that
you can make some of the people
drink Coke all of the time and
you can make all of the people
drink Coke some of the time but
you can make all of the people
drink Pepsi all of the time

Otras obras de Chris Gaither...
“May the two angels who accompany me through life and therefore have been listening to my tefillah, please respond and say Amen”

I’m no angel But I have two angels– One to protect me from others And one to protect me from myself So, I was never alone
Monotheism Is a Monorail

Paradoxically When you have a one-track mind Your body can go anywhere For your soul to accomplish anythi…
A Dragon Lives Forever

It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece
In My Comparison of Apples to Apples, Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?

What do all apples have in common? It only takes one rotten apple to… Because all apples are unique But a mob of apples are uniquely b…
The Just Go to Hell

The cold war was a just war but a just war is still just war and war is hell
Haiku

And then it hit me: My lone flaw is not admitt– ing to any flaws
The Stages of Group Envelopment: Forming, Storming, Norming, and Conforming

The ill-informed Regret to inform you That knowledge is dour But groupthink is power
“Social media is their life. That’s just what they do.”- Christie Sides

In a great leap forward Nanotech reduced life To avoiding death By turning life Into a video game
Haiku

I have just complet– ed my memoirs: One Hundred Years of Solid Food
Trojan Rat

When the loyal opposition smelled a rat the administration’s defense centered on the fact that it wasn’t the rats that had carrie…
Who Wears Short Shorts?

With the sexual revolution as with all the other belief syste… what men take as an article of faith women have to wear
Spoiler Alert

It’s only once You’ve submitted to God’s will That God will say Surprise Me
Having Ruled Out the Breath of God, the Unbeliever Can but Feel Something Breathing Down His Neck

Having heard that God is everywhe… and failing to see Him anywhere the unbeliever deduces that God is neither here nor there when, in fact, God is in the air
Whatever Happened to Conscious Uncoupling

I couldn’t believe that my first e… was still carrying a torch for me and then I saw all my other ex’s b… carrying a pitch fork
To Sleep, Perchance to Clean

What I lack in hygiene I make up for in sleep hygiene



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