You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike, but You Have to Forget How to Walk, di Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

You Never Forget How to Ride a Bike, but You Have to Forget How to Walk

Learning how to walk

is learning how to fall forward

while remembering to catch yourself

again and again

Walking is the illusion

afforded by forgetting

everything you remembered

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In the Blink of an Eye

Many people think of life as a gift but to me it’s more like

No Weigh

Our lightweight cat litter develop… hit a speed bump when we realized it was worth its weight in gold

Living When the Day After Never Comes

Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction

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

The Before, the After, and the Beautiful

Let’s call the before times “The… It’s not what you know It’s who you know But after the social media It’s not who you know

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

Fill the Void with All Your Favorite Stuff

When we restrict someone’s space i… we say that they are doing time implying that the rest of us are doing spacetime You do time

Haiku

My wife sleeps on her back while I sleep in the mis– take prone position

Define Neoliberalism

It’s capitalism after it shed its skin

Help

You could say I tried stand-up but for the audience it was more like when the flight attendant demonstrates how to put on your own oxygen mask…

“Scorpios Are Extremely Deep and Emotional People, and Are Intense in All Things They Do”

I’m converting to Judaism but I’m a Scorpio so, I have a head start

The Ayes Are the Window to the Sole Acceptable

Everything dear to you? You can take all of that and throw it out the Overton window

Nobody Wants Me, but Maybe They Need Me

Having priced myself Out of the market I’ve rebranded as generic

It’s a Slow Process, It Costs a Lot of Money, and It Involves a Lot of Drudgery, but in the End, You Get to Be Alone with Your Clone

Imagine all the things They wouldn’t allow If they were invented now Anything fast: No motorcycles

Code Red

The new Speech Code prohibits use of the phrase “Speak for yourself” due to its aggressive tone and threatening connotations

Chris Gaither