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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

There’s Something Happening Here, and What It Is Ain’t Exactly Unclear

The opposite of a gun to my head
Is a claim on my heart
And, claim on my heart
I’d say
The truth will get you
A gun to your head
Leaving the truth to be spoken
By all those and only those
Who know in their hearts
That life goes on forever
Death notwithstanding

Other works by Chris Gaither...
Nothing Is More Threatening Than Self Belief

Secure in my authenticity I thought I’d avoided that trap which had ensnared so many of my g… the safety of ironic distance– until I realized that
Ceci n’est pas un telephone

A smart phone is 1/7 billionth of a doomsday machine
Of Monsters and Men

When randomness blends with lawfulness you get the Loch Ness
The Roads Are Taken

Two roads diverged the one to the left leading up the garden path the one to the right leading down the garden path
Death Is a Pit Stop

Slow and steady wins the race If there is no finish line How do you win If you can’t finish first? If you’re the one
Don’t Be Surprised If the Hardest Thing You’ll Ever Do Is Also the Easiest Decision You’ll Ever Make

The ego always has three choices: 1. It can listen to the id and do what it wants to do 2. It can listen to the superego a… what it is supposed to do
Say It, Don’t Spray It

Free speech is when you can say anything you want as long as you don’t really believe it
It’s Spelled Bryan But It’s Pronounced Brine

Both my parents were tall and I ended up a shrimp Not coincidentally, my diet has al… largely consisted of pink flamingo… though scientists insist that it’s…
All Out-group Membership Cards Will Be Distributed by the In-group

First they promised us belonging Afterwards they clarified that they meant You belong to us
“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world”

You’re only truly clever When the devil says “Live forever If only from God you’ll sever” And you reply “Never For God is always my lever
Believe in– phrasal verb 1) To have faith or confidence in the existence of (something) 2) To have confidence in a person or a course of action

There are two kinds of people in t… Those who believe in God And those who believe in God But also believe in God You can tell the latter
I Forgot the Score Again, Guys

My favorite tennis player of all time is the Frenchman Guy Forget because man always forgets
All Roads Lead to Home, Where the Heart Is

The difference between God and ma… Is that man can’t abide A free Jew While God will abide With the Jews
Serpent, You Bore Us; Time for Ouroboros!

The bell curve is the Serpent With the lump in the middle Who ate Adam and Eve By convincing us we’re all mostly… But we’ve proven indigestible
A Dragon Lives Forever

It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece



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