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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

In Dreams, Water Represents the Emotions

You’ve made
Your waterbed
Now steep in it

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Haiku

Slow and steady wins the race because there isn’t any finish line
The Need for Belonging Is Universal, but the Internet Is a Multiverse

We all need to belong somewhere So, we formed online communities And found ourselves belonging nowh… Where once A multitude of One
In No Uncertain Terms, Certainty Is the Forbidden Fruit

Descartes wanted certainty He got it Now we’re stuck with it Uncertain how we get unstuck Does this mean we’re doomed or sav…
I Am Who I Am Not

In a failed democracy the one thing both sides can agree on is that the real traitors are the loyal opposition
Bursting at the Seams

You can’t take both forks in the road but you can overpack
The Culture War Happened on Our Phones

Staring at your phone came to be known as the thousand yard stare
It’s Either Achilles and the Tortoise or Us and Rigor Mortis

The universe is a kinetic watch so time only keeps going if we’re on the move making Zeno’s paradox of motion just a way of reassuring ourselves
“The human brain when overwhelmed with information technology is similar to that of schizophrenic– an endless array of interfaces produces skitzovision, the desire to look in multiple places at the same time”

Just because they’re coming to get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid
“Every Sign Is Subject to the Criteria of Ideological Evaluation”

The dictatorship of the professori… uses neologisms to prevent counter elocution and to speed the transition to authentic sophism and the
I’m Done Playing the Fool; I’m The Fool

I thought I was Playing to the crowd When all along I was getting Played by the crowd The crowd, it turns out
Good to the Last Drop

I’m still the kind of person who is shocked that you can run out of gas and run out of luck at the exact same time
Materialism Involves the Death of God Cum Liberalism as the Sine Qua Non for the Death of Jews

“Democracy is the worst form of go… Except for all those other forms t… Since all other forms involve deat… And democracy merely involves symb… But democracy has an illness
Odds Are God Is

I am my own worst enemy But God is my greatest ally I like my odds
The Only Constant Is Fear of Change

If we’re all afraid of change and if the more things change the more they stay the same then we’re all afraid that nothing will ever really chan…
The Subjunctive Is a Mood: If I Were a Creative, I’d Be a Depressive

Where once an artist was a creator she is now a creative because a noun requires a verb and we’re meant to do nothing which pays well on the internet



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