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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Thrill of Pyrrhic Victory

You wanted them
all to yourself
because they didn’t want
anything to do with you
and this is the sound of
one hand slow clapping

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Gone

We thought we had finally notched… by confronting Father Time with the paradox of our times when self-defeating is the new win… but we can’t win for losing
On the Redound

The one path to a sustainable future is understanding that people will only agree to cuts in their standard of livin…
“Our nervous system is simultaneously being challenged by incompatible demands demanding both avoidance of contact with the SARSCov2 virus and the fulfillment of our biological imperative of connecting with others to feel calm and safe”

The genius of Big Tech’s business… is its simplicity: Get people to pay for what they had previously accessed for free
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What’s the Big Hurry?

There are No shortcuts On an Infinite journey
I’m a Scorpio

Easy to please but problematic to appease
The Hard Times, and It’s All Hard Times, Are the Good Times, Because Marriage Strengthens as Faith Deepens

Before you know it The next big thing Is already The next best thing I suppose there’s worse things tha…
The Last Resort

When I run out of things to do I write an itinerary: When all else fails fill sandbags to convert
You Will Know Them by Their Courage

They say Believing that God has a plan for… Is a fantasy But unless you believe in God His plan for you is
In the English Language We Have 100 Words for Throwing Up, and My Favorite Is Chunder

Told to shut my mouth I took them literally Zipped my lips And held my breath Until I could stomach it no longe…
Our Goose Is Cooked

Mother Goose was always considere… a good enough mother Until lately we realized her failure to smother It was unanimous
Everyone Under Heaven Is Living in Utter Fear; the Opportunity for Courage Is Excellent

I’m not afraid of jumping in front of a bus because I don’t want to jump in front of a bus I am afraid of
The Brains of the Operation

Inborn intelligence used to be tak… but for some time now it’s gone un… With Artificial Intelligence it c… although after insertion it’s alwa… Nevertheless, everyone seems perfe…
Fire Ants On a Log

It was only after we debuted our sugar coated raisins to fight back against Craisins that I realized you could win hearts and minds
My Thermos Runneth Over

I went to a personal branding work… only to find that my most marketab… leveraging value from a lack of or… lends itself more to generics
When the Only Grand Entrance is a Clean Entry

It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…



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