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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

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
It’s a Question of Time, and There Is an Answer

One thing I’ve learned is The good times Weren’t as good As I imagined them to be In fear of the bad times
Let’s Have a Laugh at Our Own Expense, Since God Has Furnished Our Expense Account

The difference between the walking… And the walking dead Is what they have in common– The walking wounded can laugh at t… And the walking dead can only laug…
“A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing”

Eat, drink And be merry But don’t drink And derive
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
There Are Only Two Ways to Make a Living as a Writer: Teach in an MFA Program or Host a Podcast

Those who can do talk shows Those who can’t teach others to show, don’t tell
The Wishbone’s Connected to the Collarbone

Where my father’s faith led him to wear a clerical collar I struggle with faith much as I do with ring around the…
Slide Away

I always thought saying slide trombone was like saying pizza pie until I heard about the valve trombone
Your Ego Will Keep Shedding Bodies Until Your Soul Sheds Its Ego

You can die a million times Without a single ego death But one ego death is worth One God
Let Me Do the Talking

Civilization began when a discussion group convened to debate the meaning of the phras… The less said, the better
Right Makes Might

Like generals husbands are always preparing to f… while their wives are always prepa… to fight the last just war
No One Expects the Umpire Calling Balls and Strikes to Be Right; They Just Need Him to Be Consistent

We are all of us unreliable narrators Some of us just make a living at it
The Sound of Silence Travels Fast

In my experience If a tree falls in the forest And there is no one to hear it We all hear about it
Why We Give All Glory to God

To be the bigger person you need to realize that egos are like animals: the smaller their proportions the greater their proportional str…
I’m Afraid of My Own Chateau

My greatest fear is losing control but I’m not in control I have an eternal soul but I’m afraid to die I’m scared of making mistakes
Who Controls the Future Controls the Present

If you can control the future through predictive policing– what the Department of Justice describes as “taking data from disparate sources, analyzing them and then using the results to ...



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