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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Stages of Change: How the Best Actor in a Drama Became a Real-life Action hero

Tired of my pre-contemplation phase
God sent me my wife
 
Who
 
Contemplated me during the honeymoon
 
Prepared me for fatherhood
By giving me no preparation
 
Spurred me to action
By tolerating my drama
 
And maintains her vows
Despite my high maintenance
 
In short
She embraced me
And I’ve finally embraced change
Secure that God never changes

Other works by Chris Gaither...
A Good Prediction Doesn’t Need to Be Accurate

People don’t like surprises so I tell them they’re in for a real surprise which gives them something to look…
I Am Alone

Mysticism, esoteric knowledge, these are euphemisms for what’s hiding in plain sight: We are not alone
Adolescent: “If You Give Me Some Independence, I’m All In”; The World: “Remain Fully Dependent or You’re Out”

Adolescents are testing the world By way of their parents– Will it, will they Give them what they need Or
Haiku

When I listen to the blues I can’t stop thinking of advice I’d give
Everyone Has Flaws; the Trick Is Knowing Your Fatal Flaw

It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious
If One Deadly Sin Is Enough to Kill You, Isn’t That Incentive to Try All Seven?

The sloth’s plangent gaze confirms what we already know: The eighth deadly sin is haste
If Things Go Wrong, We Can Always Do No Wrong

In contemporary materialism the miracle of consciousness is filtered through zeros and ones making One a number of things with zero chance of going right
“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
God Is Meaning, Not Being

A being becomes human when you add meaning
No Communication, Just Excommunication

Everybody knows the unwritten rule… Everybody thinks they know the unw… Nobody knows when the unwritten pu…
Ain’t Life Grand: A Review

“Life”, as it’s come to be known,… And ends with a grand finale But in between there’s just a lot… And grandiloquent small talk But there are grand plans for a se…
Your Job Is to Keep the Stage Door Propped Open

You’ll know you’re but a prop In someone else’s mise en scene When, after the photo op And the choir’s said amen You’re left to close up shop
Haiku

In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help
Autocratic for the People

Aristocracy failed because it couldn’t keep some of the people happy all of the time Democracy is failing because
God Is Omnipresent but You Can’t See Him; Screens Are Everywhere and All You Can See Is Yourself

It’s no coincidence that a mirror… making all self-examination a form… in which I observe myself to remak… in my own image This only works if I believe



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