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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

If Rome Was More, It Would Be Baltimore

I never really knew
what postmodern meant
until I moved to the internet
when
from time to time
I would log off
and visit the modern ruins

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
“The Force Will Be with You, Always” and Everywhere

They can kick you out and send you to Siberia but they can’t kick God out of Siberia
You Can Handle the Half-truth but Please Don’t Handle the Merchandise

Telling ourselves half-truths Is worse than telling ourselves li… Because Although the truth will set you fr… Just as you can’t be half pregnant
The Only Subject in Middle School Used to Be Social Studies; Now It’s Religious Studies

Because we are social beings whenever people said they have no… they always meant they have no soc… Real life was social life But now social life is short for
“Our nervous system is simultaneously being challenged by incompatible demands demanding both avoidance of contact with the SARSCov2 virus and the fulfillment of our biological imperative of connecting with others to feel calm and safe”

The genius of Big Tech’s business… is its simplicity: Get people to pay for what they had previously accessed for free
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Climates Don’t Change People, People Do. Thank God.

The saying goes: We learn from the past, but we don… But the reverse is also true: If we don’t learn from the past, t… In other words
The Switching Yard

Materialism is no way out of Cartesian dualism It just turns backwards– I am, therefore I think– in an infinite regress
If You’re Not Overpromising, You’re Not Pacifying

Politics has become another form of showbiz but while the showman should always leave them wanting more the politician knows to
Drawn but Not Misbegotten

When they drew a winner It looked like we’d won By the luck of the draw But we came by our good fortune The honest way:
Haiku

A sliver of moon follows us home in the car How nice to be fooled
Let’s Start at the Beginning

Post-Enlightenment Secular Mater… Terminated in the pandemic lockdow… You could say The End of History Came after all
Postponing the Inevitable

In the act of creating new life men presage their relationship with death
I Have a Passion for Lifelong Learning

You have your Mr. Fix-It and your Mr. Learn-To-Live-With-It
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and...

I know a guy who knows Paul Simon who told me the real reason for th… was that Paul got sick of Garfunk… stalling for thyme
Two Ups Don’t Make Us Down

When things were easy going it was easy to believe you were on the up and up But when the going got tough suddenly you were going
Hold the Phone, Forever

We used to say Hold the phone Metaphorically Because we were about to say somet… Or because we needed to stop and t…



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