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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

I’ll See You in a Jiffy

Hook-up apps
have given intimacy
all the allure of
an oil change

Other works by Chris Gaither...
You Know What You’re Waiting For, So What Are You Waiting For?

Time tells a story and linear time is a plot device we’ve made up, call it a time machine, to advance the plot
When I Was a Kid, We All Still Wanted to Be Nonpareil, but Now We’re All Desperate to Be a Non-pariah

Because, per Morrissey “We hate it when our friends becom… we got rid of success by eliminating all competition except for the number of friends
In Through Your Heart or Out of Your Mind

God is hard to know– That’s how you know He is God And how He knows you care Whereas the devil doesn’t care How you found him
Living in Harmony with Nature in the Gig Economy

At night in the city you can only see three stars but you still have to give them five stars
People Are People

I’ve never believed in being proac… so instead of expecting the unexpe… I got the surprise of my life but found it altogether unexceptio…
“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
Coincidentally, Elephants and Scorpios Both Remember Everything

For twenty years people kept insis… that there was an elephant in the… but I just didn’t see it And then I realized I was the elephant
Strange Attractor

The heat of mutual disdain that always sustained us in person has cooled with depersonalized cam… that detain us via cursor
God Chooses Those Strong Enough to Choose

The Bad News Bears Bear the bad news That people tend to kill the messe… They are the bearers of bad news Not because they bear bad news
Too Good to Be True to One Another

After the sexual revolution men thought they could finally get what they want AND what they… while women believed they could at… get what they need AND what they…
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…
Literary Industrial Complex

Is being a conformist without a cause enough to qualify me as an antihero
Knowing We Always Think of a Good Comeback Too Late, God Gives Us One Ahead of Time to Use When the Devil Tempts Us with Everything We Want: Who Wants That?

We are all problem children Our problem is Everything we do is done to get a… As if every action doesn’t come wi… An equal and opposite reaction
The Internet Is Our Blindfold and American Spirit Is Our Cigarette

To be an apparatchik In our collective dissolution of… It matters not Which side you take Just as long as you remain
Saved by the Gel

My life was about to go down the drain but the drain was clogged



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