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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

I’ll Tell You What They Want, What They Really, Really Want

There was once a time when
No Jews allowed
Meant
No Jews allowed
But now they say
No Zionists allowed
Which means:
Any Jews who protect themselves from slaughter
Will be slaughtered–
All other Jews are allowed
To participate in the slaughter

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Postponing the Inevitable

In the act of creating new life men presage their relationship with death
Life in a Lineup

The culture war is a cyber war where you can’t tell that you’re behind enemy lines until you’re compelled to read your lines
I Thought When I Grew Up Everyone Would Get Trophy Wives

If you instill children with self-esteem before they’ve fought and won confidence you’ll make of them cowards
Tell It Like It Is

Jews will tell you Right up front That they believe They are the chosen people WASPs believe that they believe
The Man in Black Socks

Johnny Cash is going to Jackson; I have been to Jacksonville
Love, American Style

My house built in the 1920s still has a TV antenna like a tattoo you got in early mid… with which you’ve come to have
Love Comes After Acceptance

The three most powerful words in the English language are not I love you; they are So be it
We All Know Where the British Empire’s Bodies Are Buried but We’ve Always Already Tumbled to Decorum

Most people can get away with sweeping a few things under the ru… but when I started working at the… I couldn’t help noticing how the rugs looked like
The Truth Hurts Because It Sets You Free and the Truth Is That the Image of Hell as an Inferno of Torment Is a Lie; Hell Is the Most Comfortable Place on Earth

I was voluntold to make myself sca… But scarcely do they realize In pretending to give me a choice They have unwittingly given me an… Truth or dare?
Mourning in America

No one who desires to be good believes themselves good; all those who believe themselves g… do so in service of their true desire
Ghost of Myself

I’m not afraid of rejection– Life is a series of rejections Until you learn that Life goes on I’m afraid of abject humiliation
“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
We’re Asking the Wrong Question

There are only two questions: Are we asking the right question? and Who gets the last word?
Causation Implies Duration

You can’t prove that God exists But even if you could People would just say Correlation does not imply causati…
Everything Happens by Chance... “So, You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance!”

The universe is always asking By chance, do you have a creative…



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