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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Person, Place, or Thing

Part 1-
Who am I?
A missing person
 
Where’s my place?
It’s where I must stay
 
What’s my thing?
It’s nothing
 
Part 2-
Who am I?
I’m here to tell you
 
Where’s my place?
I’m getting there
 
What’s my thing?
My desire

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
Rated G

Cartoonists always draw the lightb… pointing up so that no one will think it’s a n…
Art Imitates Near-death

The difference between A garden variety bullshitter And a bullshit artist Is that bullshitting is easy But a bullshit artist
The Subject of Desire

Because there is no I in lions, if a lion could talk, it couldn’t say I Which is to say, a lion can starve but never lacks,
Only God Can Give You What You Need; Only the Devil Can Give You What You Deserve

You can cash in on your talent You can cash in on your good looks You can cash in on your hard work You can cash in on your good luck You can even cash in on all four
Arcane Knowledge Is Power

I may not be deep but I compensate for it by getting deep into the weeds
“The Only Thing of Which One Can Be Guilty Is of Having Given Ground Relative to One’s Desire”

If you feel like you’ve been getting away with something you’ve probably been cheating yourself
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:
Picture This

A poem is worth A thousand pictures A life is worth A thousand paper cuts So, if I were to
I Was a Perfect Solipsist; Now I’m a Husband in Progress

I know I think, Therefore I am All knowing Unless
Only Analog Clocks Are Analogous to the Heart; a Digital Clock Is Like a Finger-pointing

There’s no time like the present as we now reside outside of time inside a stalled clockworks as useless cogs in the rundown machine
Fool Myself Once, Shame on Me; Fool Myself Twice, Shame on Us

There is hiding yourself and there is hiding from yourself; the former is often
Win, Lose, or Blah

In the first half of life I tried it your way and succeeded which is how I got over you In the second half of life I did it my way and failed
Desire Knows

Desire is Putting all of your eggs in one ba… Wisdom is Understanding that there is only o…
“One thing I could do was finger roll”

One thing I could do Was need control
What If You Played Hide-and-Go-Seek but Everyone Was It

Because I was both my private and public self I was neither and my trail went cold from there But now that there are neither



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