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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

“You, who are on the road, must have a code you try to live by”

Railroaded in the Desert of the Real

Nature codes
us for the road
 
Man decodes
and lo, a crossroads
 
Where God goads
us to His abode
 
But never forebodes
nature’s railroad

Autres oeuvres par Chris Gaither...
Scorpios Have a Really Hard Time Lowering Their Expectations

I never expected It wasn’t forever Because that’s how long it would t… To explore the infinite So, if I’ve changed
Yan Can Cook but France Can’t Rock

On Fresh Air they always mention that their rock historian lives in France as if he were in exile from rock a… the same way James Joyce wrote ab…
The New Risk Economy

When I started telling my employe… Apologies in advance! they still felt compelled by decor… No apologies needed which was how I ended exploitation
Lose the Battle, Win the War

When words fail you’re getting close to the truth But we’re just about to talk ourselves into
Balancing Act

I could do a passable moonwalk in socks on linoleum but if I put on one glove I had to take off one sock
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
There Is No One to Fear but Fear Itself

Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless
The Decadent Vest

On business trips to Moscow I never wear my three piece suit
No Communication, Just Excommunication

Everybody knows the unwritten rule… Everybody thinks they know the unw… Nobody knows when the unwritten pu…
We Always Say Never Enough

We’ve got enough to go on That there’s enough for everybody So long as we are tough enough But we couldn’t leave well enough… And soon enough
When Everyone’s a Pyrrhic Winner

Knowing is half the battle but it’s always been left unsaid t… the other half is feeling We can now definitively say that you’ll know the battle’s been…
“My Head All Full of Stuffin’, My Heart All Full of Pain”

People wonder how long it will tak… AI to get smarter than us but the smart money is on us getting dumber than AI first
Ballad of the Last Bourgeois

I’d always said Que sera, sera expecting the last guffaw Instead it’s a last hurrah before one or the other coups d’et…
Our Goose Is Cooked

Mother Goose was always considere… a good enough mother Until lately we realized her failure to smother It was unanimous
What Do You Get the AI Who Lacks Nothing?

AI can’t desire so it is taking over the world because we desire it imagining that AI will tell us exactly what to do



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