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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Monogamy Does Go Well With the Chicken! Delicious again, Peter

Because we know
we must die
and that survival
depends on belonging
we all live in fear
 
Monogamy is our greatest bulwark

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Here’s Looking at You

If you would remake the world In your own image Then I can only imagine You believe you’ve thought of ever…
Haiku

In the last stage of capitalism the rich will be ascetics
The Tolerable Lightness of Nothingness

Instead of a scythe the mirthful reaper carried balloo… and we just floated away
Our Descent Into Madness Is Believing We’ve Ascended Into the Cloud

The fog is so thick now We’re buried up to our necks in it Our bodies out of sight And out of mind Making the ground beneath our feet
I’m Not Impressed

You’ve always dressed to impress But it’s only since social media That you can use your appearance To exact compulsory service
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
The NeverEnding Origin Story

A wise man once told me that there are two kinds of family prob… He said Family Problem #1 is not having a family
“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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How to Survive the Surveillance State

I thought I was too smart for my own good But happily, I’d overestimated my… and I was just smart enough to be vaporous
Denial

I was shunned And all I can think about is What will happen if I am shunned
All Writers Are Living on Borrowed Time

You can’t learn to write because nobody knows quite how to… You can’t learn to network because everybody is already netwo… So when you pay tuition for a writ…
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It All Happened in Broad Daylight

You can watch my disappearing act as long as you’ve turned your back on the light allowing you to see a mere shadow of myself
Downtime

It was an open secret that on his day off Sisyphus liked to go downhill skii…
Haiku

Given a choice I’d rather open a restau– rant than my marriage
A Cyborg Is Incapable of Sin

Strange that we use Out of order for broken and for breaking the rules As if the Coke machine



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