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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Once You See It, You Can’t Unsee It

A class marker
is always written
in permanent marker;
in a classless society
the permanent marker
uses invisible ink

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Joe Six-Pack

When I caught my wife cutting up… she said it was to prevent birds getting stuck in them like six-pac…
Prey Is Both Verb and Noun, i.e. It’s All-consuming

The biggest change in my lifetime Has been the change in the meaning… They don’t have a prayer It used to mean They don’t have a chance
“All of it. It’s all true.”

When I asked Permission to come aboard The ship of fools They said Everything is permitted
I Asked God “What Do I Have to Offer?” and God Saw Right Through Me. He Said “You Don’t Have To; the Choice Is Always Yours.”

Step up to bat– It’s you against the world First base– Doubt yourself Second base–
The Barrow of Time

Physicists insist that time can flow both forward and backward So, I always insist on sitting in the backward facing seats of th… because I need to be able to see
What Does Hamas Want?

This is a much simpler question than What does a woman want? Hamas wants to kill all Jews in Israel
Surely, You Don’t Really Believe That

People are the opposite of baked potatoes– If you keep poking holes in their theories they will explode
I Asked for Lawyers, Guns, and Money and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt

The revolution will be permanent When nobody means what they say But everybody memes what they say
No Perspective

The screen you’re looking at seven hours a day is actually a magnifying glass
That Makes Zero Sense

China’s zero-covid policy zeroes in on ideology in order to zero out reality Americans, too, have a zero percen… making justice a total zero
Not Now, Not Ever

We spend most of our waking lives alternating between procrastinatio… and delayed gratification as if by putting things off we’ve bought ourselves more time
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Know Thyself

LL Cool J can’t live without his radio For me, it’s my patio
Sympathy of the Devil

If you are taught that asserting yourself is wrong your only defense will be victimho… Knowing this we can reverse engineer
Knight Rider– A Haiku

Originally it was about Michael Bike and called Bike Rider
“We shall go on to the end. We shall fight... whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Facing a fate worse than death– Immortality with neither body nor… Because Nothing ventured, nothing lost– Life is worth dying for



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