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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Red Sox Nation, I Give You Self-ruination

We guard the thin line
between love and hate
by loving more
 
But we cross the thin line
between self-love and self-hate
by self-loving more

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Haiku

My wife fell right back in love with me when we came up with a rubric
The Battle of Gog and Magog and Everything After

Forgetting that God has promised To never repeat the Flood We’ve busied ourselves opening the… Expecting to end it all As we flood the planes
Ludwig Wittgenstein’s First Name Means “Famous Warrior”, His Last Name Means “Stone of Wit”, and, Famously, He Showed Us That Our Real Battle Is Not to Outwit Ourselves

Per Wittgenstein Words only gain meaning through th… And they are always used in the co… Of the game being played in the mo… So, when we use words
Let’s Have a Laugh at Our Own Expense, Since God Has Furnished Our Expense Account

The difference between the walking… And the walking dead Is what they have in common– The walking wounded can laugh at t… And the walking dead can only laug…
Desire Is Having Infinite Wishes but Only Needing One

There aren’t any lines That you can’t cross– This is called free will But there are lines That you can’t uncross–
Women Have a Higher Tolerance for Pain

Yes Life is a pain But it is a labor pain
The Unconscious Is Infinite so that Our Consciousness Can Grow Forever

You have to do the right thing aut… At the same time you are doing it… This seems impossible because No one has ever quite done it Which is why you might call it
Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees, It Grows on Memes

You start out needing money to advance your ideology but you end up mouthing your ideol… to rake in more money
“This is the day your life will surely change” – The The

In the old country song When Mac Davis sings “Oh lord it’s hard to be humble When you’re perfect in every way” I always assumed
Eight Rhymes with Hate

It took years of therapy but the octopus finally arrived at… that the reason she didn’t like th… was because they were so much alik…
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I Was a Perfect Solipsist; Now I’m a Husband in Progress

I know I think, Therefore I am All knowing Unless
Under the Sun

The difference between art and rea… is that the artist is doomed to re… the triumphs of the past
Lucky for Me, I’m a Natural at Self-censorship

I was the first ever lobster discovered in the wild with a rubber band around my claw clamping it shut
Unlikeable

I wear black socks On the outside Because black is how I feel In the onside
Bad Things Happen to Good People and Good Things Happen to Bad People Because We Have Divided the World into Good and Bad People When, Instead, We Are All God’s People

One interpretation holds that the… And the Tree of Knowledge of Goo… Are one and the same tree Which makes sense to me Since when Adam and Eve decided t…



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