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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Beat Goes On. And On.

Working My Beat

The only thing harder in sports
Than hitting a baseball
Is writing
 
This maxim applies to every human endeavor
Especially writing
In which it is phrased thusly:
It is impossible to write well on purpose
So, write often and you might get lucky

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
“You, who are on the road, must have a code you try to live by”

Nature codes us for the road Man decodes and lo, a crossroads Where God goads
The Peace Movement Has Gone Nuts

Today’s peace movement, in a nutsh… Do what we do Not what we say And we say we come in peace Because we’re mostly peaceful
We All Know Where the British Empire’s Bodies Are Buried but We’ve Always Already Tumbled to Decorum

Most people can get away with sweeping a few things under the ru… but when I started working at the… I couldn’t help noticing how the rugs looked like
You Can Always Spot an American

Saying Get out of your comfort zone to an American is like telling a turtle to get out of its shell
“Under OVS, students must select a fruit or vegetable at each meal and must take at least three items for the meal to qualify as reimbursable.”

Somewhere between 27% and 53% of… none of which students can legally… is wasted Let’s split the difference and call it 40%
“If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter”

The crucial ingredient for random mutation to drive evolution is a surplus of time But nothing
Whither Brute Force?

At bottom God is a brute fact and Satan a brutal fact
We Could Have Chosen the Easy Way or the Hard Way; This Is the Easy Way

Having given up On heaven No one Recognizes hell
If the Best Indicator of Future Behavior Is Past Behavior, Why Does God Expect Us to Change?

Change is unknown territory And materialism is the attempt To map the entire territory So that nothing can change Cyberspace then takes the frozen t…
You Can’t Spell Alone Without One

There is no mind There is no body There is thinking and there is fee… And I know all too well How you feel
Love Thine Frenemy

The New Revised Standard Version… A frenemy of yours is a frenemy of… whereas the New King James Versi… The frenemy of my frenemy is my fr…
Haiku

And then it hit me: My lone flaw is not admitt– ing to any flaws
In Through Your Heart or Out of Your Mind

God is hard to know– That’s how you know He is God And how He knows you care Whereas the devil doesn’t care How you found him
Saving Face

Not to be outdone I cut my face off to spite my nose
John Baltimore Sings “Mt. Sinai, Chai!”

I was born in the summer of my 47th year coming home to a place my mazel’d ever been before



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