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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Love Spreads Unless It’s Spread Thin

I was an idea man
with one good idea
and I have no idea
why they stole my idea of a good time
when they could just have it

Other works by Chris Gaither...
A Few Clams Don’t Go Nearly as Far as They Used To

We thought it would last forever but in retrospect we were having a high time at low tide when the clam digging was easy and the eating was good
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
You Can’t Learn From the Past, but You Can Reinvent the Wheel

People keep repeating the same mis… Until they learn their lesson But what if the lesson is that History repeats itself? If you’ve skimmed your Nietzsche
A Far Gone Conclusion

We all know that one word or phras… Can mean two different things But we forget that one thing Can mean two different words or ph… To wit
Life Is On Again, Off Again Until One Fully Commits to a Life of On Again, Off Again

We never know what’s in the offing Which is why we’re always on Except on Shabbos When we’re off And then it’s off to the races aga…
Like Hostages Blindfolded in the Darkest of Tunnels, We Can’t See the Light with Our Eyes, but Trust and Believe, It Is an Eternal Light and It Shines Forth from an Eternal People Who Will Never Succumb to the Darkness

For human beings the dominant sens… So, coming to our senses Would necessarily involve restorin… By removing our blinders Which keep us from seeing anything
Escapism Is What Prevents Our Escape

I’m not a Buddhist but I understand that the bodhisat… doesn’t enact his escape from suff… exiting the cycle of birth, old ag… but through the determination to r…
Life Consists of Love and Work, and Love Is Analogous to Work

When people ask Business or pleasure? I want to say Life’s only pleasure Is unfinished business
Google Maps Really Is the Territory

Here’s the deal: You have no say in any of this but that doesn’t mean you can’t still have your way if you learn to see things our way
“Come inside, the show’s about to start”

Initially, as you approach hell it feels like you’re getting a warm welcome
I Hope and Trust That You Will Make the Necessary Adjustments

The United States’ motto is still In God We Trust but everyone knows that’s come to mean Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
Exponential Risk

Growing up was hard enough when we just had cliques not today’s clicks upon cliques
It’s a Free Country, but That Doesn’t Mean You Get a Free Ride; In Fact, It Means the Opposite

It always comes back to Love and work– The whole point of Love of country Is found in doing the work
Enrico Fermi Paused to Ask “But Where Is Everybody?”; I Submit to You, It Is No Paradox

Archaeologists have looked and loo… But what if the Earth itself is o… And our universe the flood of dark… As we inhabit story within story w… In an infinite fractal
Get This

I may not be the man who has everything but I’m the man who knows what to get for the man who has everything



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