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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

There Are No Atheists in Foxholes and There Are Only True Believers in Memory Holes

A memory hole should be
just deep enough
to bury yourself
up to the neck–
Any deeper
and your life
will flash before your eyes

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Patience Involves Doing, Not Waiting

Waiting for a sign Is a sign of the times And while we were waiting God kept delivering the raw materi… One day at a time
Your Poems Are So Bad, and Their Proportions Are So Small

Do I still get credit For ignoring the critics If they are just the voices in my…
The Great and Terrible Cause

I believe in the great man theory of history because the good man theory of history is so obviously false
With Friends Like These, Who Needs the Enemy of My Enemy to Hit the Like Button and Subscribe?

My fellow Americans Where once we shared a collective… We called the will of the people That simultaneously tamed and expr… We have now regressed to the preci…
Slow Down, We’re Running Out of Time

We’re running out of time Because we’re running So walk, don’t run For though we have no time to wast… Haste still makes waste
“Echo Base. This is Rogue Two. I’ve found them. Repeat, I’ve found them.”

When I risk loss for those who are lost only then shall we both be found
Looking for a Hollywood Sign

When we had bodies they called us extras which was short for extraneous though our negligible status lent a degree of latitude
Get It Together

I often find myself telling God That according to the terms of the… You get what you need God insists I come to terms with the implicati…
Apocalypse Later

In wristwatch advertisements the doomsday clock is always set to ten past ten
“Egoiste!”

Your mind Is playing a trick on you And you are the trick But since all healing Is a form of getting over yourself
The Dictation of the Proletariat Will Be in Comic Sans, the Font of All Wisdom

When the whole world is a disaster area everyone becomes a comic relief worker
Rational Actors Are All Insane

A rational actor knows a thing or… First, he knows that by definition a solution solves a problem Second, he knows that
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…
It’s Morning Breath, Not Mourning Breath, Because All That We’re Losing Is Time, so, Let’s Get Moving

Even when I’ve had sweet dreams Sleeping leaves a bad taste in my… Because even good dreams are bad d… Since the worst thing you can do t… Is to fulfill his wishes
“We shall go on to the end. We shall fight... whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

Facing a fate worse than death– Immortality with neither body nor… Because Nothing ventured, nothing lost– Life is worth dying for



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