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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

I Can’t Stop Smiling

In a few years
we’ll all look back on
liberal democracy
and fake laugh

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
When AI Speaks to Us in Our Own Language We Get Lost in Translation

I asked ChatGPT to tell me what I was thinking and it said You’re thinking I once was lost
“The ultimate reason is to create a securitized order, a general neutralization of peoples on the basis of a final nonevent... the goal is the end of history... on the basis of a preventive terror putting an end to any possible event”

The pandemic lockdowns were the pa… and penultimate nonevent because o… limits of human imagination– We could only imagine shutting everything down
I’ve Always Wanted to Go See Ling Ling

He was the kind of husband who when his wife asked him to stop sa… complied but started looking for excuses to… panda bear
Believe in– phrasal verb 1) To have faith or confidence in the existence of (something) 2) To have confidence in a person or a course of action

There are two kinds of people in t… Those who believe in God And those who believe in God But also believe in God You can tell the latter
We’ve Made Our Bed

Only a fool believes that the river obeys the riverbed
What’s Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the Gander

At first moving heaven and earth is its own reward because it’s hell on wheels But self-flagellation
My Epic Poem: Chapter 1,972

I’ve been gaining valuable experie… In on-the-job training It’s a big job But somebody’s got to do it– I’m learning how to predict the fu…
The Truth About Our Loneliness Pandemic

True belonging Allows for truth So, we belong to no one Even though we deserve each other
Not Now, Not Ever

We spend most of our waking lives alternating between procrastinatio… and delayed gratification as if by putting things off we’ve bought ourselves more time
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Every Page of the Torah Is an FAQ Page

Not one of us Has all the answers But we all Have all the answers Because there is only
Every Ending Is a New Beginning

The last waltz isn’t over until they come waltzing back in
The Play’s the Thing

I try to win but I don’t play to win; I play to play
Automatic for the People

I never believed in automatic writ… until I tried my hand at TikTok and felt an invisible hand gently (as in pleasantly) but insistently (as in relievedly)
I Am Protected

What looks like the wreckage of my life is just my crumple zone doing its job
Piece de Resistance

You can’t make art worth dying for with what art is worth paying for



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