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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Rundown Republic

During the lockdown
you were still
technically allowed to
exercise outdoors
but I rigged up
a traffic light
set to eternal green
in my living room
where I jogged in place
for hours at a time
in order to maintain the illusion
that everything was still
running according to plan

Otras obras de Chris Gaither...
The New Ontological Proof

Delusions of grandeur about yourse… Are inevitable Delusions of grandeur about God Are impossible Which is how
We All Die, but at the Risk of Stating the Obvious, It’s Because We All Yet Live

Life is trying So Die trying
Business as Usual

In the end no one could be held accountable for the catastrophe not because there weren’t plenty of warning signs
In the World to Come There Will Be No Use for Noise-cancelling Headphones

I was always trying to find The signal in the noise Until I found God And discovered that It’s all signal
A Consonant Question

Consider the vowel: In Marxism, the last shall remain… as the second A in materialism always becomes the second E in mat… And in capitalism, of course
Instead of Back to the Future, It’s Forward to the Past

A civilization requires a high degree of both technological and cultural develop… So what do you call it when technological development
A Culture of Death Never Speaks of Death; We Just Say It’s Gone to Committee

A planning committee’s second most… Is coming up with a plan That everyone can agree to But no one is happy with This sounds strange until you real…
Like is a Very Strong Word

When I was a kid we thought the end of the world was coming any minute via The Button Instead it came a little later
“It goes on and on and on and on”

Seeing as I’m just the messenger It would be easier to tell you Than to show you Because words are all I’ve got But since, if I told you
The Ballad of the Essential Worker

The rise in sales of cruelty-free products exactly tracks the increased rate at which its consumers visit cruelty upon
The Superego Only Has One Mechanism, Guilt, Because That’s All It Needs to Rule Uncontested; In This, the Superego Is the Opposite of God, Who Accepts All Contests Even Though It Is No Contest

Chapter 1- Defense Mechanisms, an… We all defend ourselves– If you are unprepared to defend yo… It just means that Your defense is unconscious
The Big Picture

I’ll give you the forest And I’ll take the trees You save the whales And I’ll keep the bees The sand in your eyes
Mission Inevitable

If you accept this mission This message will self-destruct In five seconds So that you can be born believing… Which is the necessary condition
“Tank. I need a pilot program for a B-212 helicopter. Hurry.”

The ego is a helicopter equipped to safeguard belonging deter conflict and elevate status
Mission Impassable

Because the ego mustn’t know its real mission lest it go back on accepting it, this message will self-destruct five seconds before life begins:



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