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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Imagine That

The Real is meaningless
but doesn’t lack meaning
 
The Symbolic is meaningful
but can lack all meaning
 
We can only navigate
the meaninglessness of the Real
when the Symbolic
is full of meaning
 
When the Symbolic lacks meaning
we are lost in the Real

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
I Didn’t Just Fall Off a Turnip Truck; I Was Shoved Right Off

Blood is thicker than water Unless it’s blood From a turnip
Authorities Have Called Off Man’s Search for Meaning

The Declaration of Independence w… revised to guarantee life, security and the pursuit of criminals
God, Gold, and Glory

Given a ship that would never sink we proceeded to run it aground in search of
Strident Lucidity

I thought my alarm clock woke me up each day but the day I realized it had always been a false alarm was the day I realized
The French Connection

Unlike the Americans and the Engl… who are divided by a common langua… the Americans and the Parisians are divided by a common symptom: disappointment
Breathe

If you made a Venn Diagram of my office and a coal mine the only thing you’d put where the… is the canary we keep by the copie… If the canary is dead
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The Tail Is Not a Poisonous Stinger After All

Rock and roll may be dead but it’s got one of the great corp… like a dead horseshoe crab
There’s Only Two Ways Past This Shitstorm: Through It

When Plan A is not having a plan Plan B is not having an exit strategy
Desire is the Sixth Stage of Grief

Just as Tastes like chicken is code for I only want chicken I don’t know what I want
No Such Thing

Lunch is born free but everywhere is in chain restaurants
I’m Not Sure I Understand What You Mean, but I Believe It

A human has being so, we call ourselves human beings God has meaning so, we call Him
I Was Born into a Family, but I Wasn’t a Member Until I Paid the Price of Admission

All raw deals Are some version of the following: If we screw up You’ll keep your mouth shut Because if you draw attention to i…
Lose the Battle, Win the War

When words fail you’re getting close to the truth But we’re just about to talk ourselves into
“It goes on and on and on and on”

Seeing as I’m just the messenger It would be easier to tell you Than to show you Because words are all I’ve got But since, if I told you
Robert Face-Plant

If you don’t believe I’m the Led Zeppelin of poetry just wait ‘til you see my poems go over like a lead balloon



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