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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Greetings

One of the great rabbinic sages explained
That this world’s three most intense beings
Are Jews, dogs, and roosters
 
My take?
 
No one greets the day like a rooster
No one greets you like your dog
And no one greets a challenge like us Jews

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
All Art Is Impolitical

The arts say What can’t be said While agitprop tells us What can be said In a game of
Augmentation by Redaction

In the state of nature You live by the sword And die by the sword In civilization The pen is mightier
Winning Isn’t Everything; It’s the Only Thing

Narrow minds see The narrow odds of making their es… Cleaving to the straight and narro… They’ve cleaved the path in two And because they can still see no…
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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I Didn’t Just Fall Off a Turnip Truck; I Was Shoved Right Off

Blood is thicker than water Unless it’s blood From a turnip
The Thrill of Pyrrhic Victory

You wanted them all to yourself because they didn’t want anything to do with you and this is the sound of
All Words Have Meaning, Even if Nothing Else Does

As users of language we give off meaning the same way that plants as users of sunlight give off oxygen
Whatever I Am, I’m Against It! or Your Ego Remains Self-defeating for Exactly as Long as You Believe in It

Known knowns: Who I think you think I am Known unknowns: Who you think I am Unknown unknowns:
action– n: the progressive alteration of mental states or of mental and physical states coordinately esp. when resulting in an observable effect on the external world

Who says ye cannae change the laws… Where before Every action had An equal and opposite reaction Now every reaction
You Can’t Learn From the Past, but You Can Reinvent the Wheel

People keep repeating the same mis… Until they learn their lesson But what if the lesson is that History repeats itself? If you’ve skimmed your Nietzsche
“A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing”

Eat, drink And be merry But don’t drink And derive
Haiku

In the last stage of capitalism the rich will be ascetics
Mutually Assured Tax Deduction

Much like nuclear weapons the whole point of having vacation days is never to use them
In That Case, Let’s See What’s Behind Door #3

In Putin’s version of Let’s Make… he shows you what’s behind Door #1… - You let Putin run you through w… AND what’s behind Door #2: - You fall on your sword to atone…
Egos Are Overrated

On a scale of one to ten One being the lowest Ten being the highest Rate yourself Then imagine



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