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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

When the Circle is Unspoken

They put a circle
at dead ends
so you can either live there
or turn back
but we just keep
going around and around

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The Most Repressed People Often Present as the Easiest to Talk With

When someone says Ask me anything You wonder what you’re not allowed… But that’s exactly what you can’t… Because they don’t know
The Unofficial Results of the Unwritten Rules

In countries with official state-r… Everyone pretends to pay attention So that they can go back to being… In countries with unacknowledged s… Everyone pays attention
Where I Come From, There’s Only One Rule: Don’t Talk Back

A boundary is a line until you cross it when it becomes a binding leaving you all tied up with nowhere to go
How to Take It Easy

Life’s a lot easier Once you realize that All truths are hard truths
Fly a Way

Wittgenstein began by telling us t… Face the facts But the fact is A cold, hard bottle In the form of our addiction to
It’s the Difference Between Being Wile E. Coyote or the Pink Panther

Insanity is thinking you can ever get what you want and devoting your life to getting it
“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
The Macroeconomics of Social Graces

Gracious me! Now that college Has become a finishing school There are no starter homes
When Full-service Is Self-service

A people pleaser pretends to live in Youtopia but really resides in Myopia because all he can see is what he needs from you
Optimism, Meet Panopticonism

In cyberspace Nothing remains to be seen Because the fourth dimension isn’t… It’s money
New Faithful Erupts Each and Every Moment

Nothing in life is guaranteed Because God is guaranteed
Blind as a Bat

The male gaze sees all or nothing unless it’s blindfolded– then it sees both
If We Just Retrieve What We’ve Already Learned, the Golden Age Will Be a Fait Accompli

Post-pandemic life is like being a… Who comes home only to find Her parents have replaced Her obviously dead goldfish With a new one
Women Love a Man Who Can Make Them Laugh

I put out a comedy album Side A was called Wins Side B was called Losses Only one side was funny
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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