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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Looks Can Be Deceiving

The ugly duckling
Is not a duck
But he is a lucky duck

Other works by Chris Gaither...
We Are Drawn to the Light from Our Screens Like Flies to a Bug Zapper

We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories
“Meta: Aggressive AI Strategy for the ‘Year of Efficiency’”

In this, the year of efficiency AI chatbots exposed a deficiency Because there’s nothing worse In the known metaverse Than a lingering sense of self-suf…
“Egoiste!”

Your mind Is playing a trick on you And you are the trick But since all healing Is a form of getting over yourself
Solving Long Division by Playing the Long Game

Men require 613 mitzvos to cleave… As tightly as God cleaves to them Which is indivisibly Women, born closer to God Require just 599 mitzvos to cleave…
The Brain Makes Predictions to Control Outcomes

Like many of you All my life I’ve been trying to predict What will happen when The unstoppable force
Fake It ‘Til You Make It; You Already Are Anyway

The biggest change Since I found God Is who I am Trying to impress Which is how you know
It’s All Fun and Games Until It’s an Eye for an Eye

The American cure for the boredom of meaninglessness is not to pursue meaning but to outpace boredom which is why our mass nihilism
Who Are You Talking to When You’re Talking to Yourself?

Every ego is a God complex And like you I almost had myself convinced that I am who I am
Guilty By and Large

The cover-up is always worse when there’s no crime
Death Is the Kind of Test You Can’t Study For

The essay portion of the test Was explaining why The test only consists Of multiple-choice questions So, I wrote:
I’m Still Standing in the Wind

My self-care plan includes a cheat day when I get to go to church
Haiku

And then it hit me: My lone flaw is not admitt– ing to any flaws
A Reading From 3rd Acts

While others await the second coming my own second shortcoming (the first– keeping the peace
All Dreams Fulfill Wishes and Spacetime Is a Lucid Dream in Which You Move Towards Your Deepest Desire by Working for It; For Many People It Helps if They Suspend Disbelief by Imagining the Dream Is Real

All movement occurs in time Will we make our move in time? Time will tell The obvious answer: All movement occurs in time
You May or May Not Believe That God Is Real but God Always Believes in Who You Really Are

In comic books Superheroes assume a secret identi… In order to fool others So they can continue to serve othe… In real life



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