Haiku, by Chris Gaither

The Fact That Creation Is Foolproof Proves That We Didn’t Make It and That It Was Perfectly Made for Us

God doesn’t make mistakes But He lets us make mistakes Which, unless I’m mistaken Means there’s no mistaking us for… But being mistake prone

The Secret to Winning Monopoly Is Owning the Electric Company; the Secret to Life Isn’t a Secret (Yet)

The difference between being hungr… And being power hungry Is that hunger can be satisfied This is because God is

Serving Is Both Pre-determined and Self-determined; We Have No Choice but to Choose Whom to Serve

When we serve God determinedly Every day is humbling As we marvel at what we have been… And with it, the chance to give on… When we serve ourselves relentless…

Bad Things Happen to Good People and Good Things Happen to Bad People Because We Have Divided the World into Good and Bad People When, Instead, We Are All God’s People

One interpretation holds that the… And the Tree of Knowledge of Goo… Are one and the same tree Which makes sense to me Since when Adam and Eve decided t…

“You want to know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation: I go to work, I go to work, I go to work”

Seeing as no good deed goes unpuni… Everyone else turned the job offer… And went back to waiting on their… Only the Jews understood that In the real world

The Great and Terrible Cause

I believe in the great man theory of history because the good man theory of history is so obviously false

Read ‘Em and Weep

AI didn’t write this poem; it wrote the algorithm that decided whether or not you would read it

You Aren’t Free to Choose Your Desire, but You Are Free to Follow It

Lao Tse said of the Tao that “You can use it any way you want” Jacques Lacan further insisted th… you should only use it the way you… when he said

“I’d Like to Help You in Your Struggle to Be Free”

A wise man once told me When you don’t know what to do do nothing A wise politician

The Center Cannot Hold in Its Laughter

Funny how as the left lost its sense of humor it became a joke

“You, who are on the road, must have a code you try to live by”

Nature codes us for the road Man decodes and lo, a crossroads Where God goads

We Can’t Solve the Three-Body Problem Because It Is Our Solution

The three-body problem For example, the motion of the Mo… As disturbed by the Sun Is insoluble As in unpredictable

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

To Sleep, Perchance to Clean

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

A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed

AI is not your friend Because your friend needs you AI is not God Because you need God Knowing this

Chris Gaither

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