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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Shall I Compare Thee? I Shall.

What else can I say?
Is for most people a rhetorical question
But the poet takes it literally
Making it the exception that proves the poet’s rule
That everything is a metaphor for God
About whom nothing else can be said

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
In the World to Come There Will Be Neither Capitalism nor Socialism Because People Will Finally Grasp the Difference Between Wants and Needs, i.e. There Will Finally Be Monotheism

The difference between God and human beings Is that God gives you what you deserve Which is always what you need
At the Existential Risk of Stating the Obvious

In the latest version of Captain… Captain America’s archenemy is Captain Obvious for all the obvious reasons
Subtle Changes Are Often the Most Substantial

The B is silent in subtle but spo… B-cause a B-ing B-comes human by saying the quiet… The B-all and end-all Is the B-ginning and the end
Because Why Not.

The cause of it all Is infinite possibility So, you can do anything You set your mind to So long as you maintain
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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Here Be Dragons

The most common rookie mistake is thinking that because you know what you were saved from that you also know what you were saved for
To Cover All of Your Bases, Trade Your Castles in for Yachts

A rising tide lifts all boats But a rising sea floods all moats
Under the Sun

The difference between art and rea… is that the artist is doomed to re… the triumphs of the past
With or Against

The duel with yourself is whether Your life will be a duel with God Or a duel against others This is the fight of your life And you have two hands
Audience Capture

A leader attracts a following The following attracts a crowd The crowd mobs the leader The leader forms a mob The mob goes mental
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
One of the First Things to Go When You Lose Your Mind Is the Theory of Mind

It used to be that We could feed our souls By serving others Or feed our egos By serving ourselves
All Dreams Fulfill Wishes and Spacetime Is a Lucid Dream in Which You Move Towards Your Deepest Desire by Working for It; For Many People It Helps if They Suspend Disbelief by Imagining the Dream Is Real

All movement occurs in time Will we make our move in time? Time will tell The obvious answer: All movement occurs in time
The Human Rain Delay

We treat life as if Postponing the inevitable When we should be busy Preparing for the inestimable
Haiku

My wife sleeps on her back while I sleep in the mis– take prone position



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