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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Art Imitates Life

When Strutting Your Stuff Is Just a Step Towards Selling Your Stuff

Either
Life imitates art
and becomes an exhibition
Or
Art Imitates Life
and becomes a competition
 
It’s one or the other
but I wish that meant
we had a choice

Other works by Chris Gaither...
“The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and with much kindness”

With the same hubris That got us into this mess In the first place We like nothing more than to decla… Global warming is man-made
Haiku

Mistakes are inev– itable; owning them is inestimable
Haiku

God’s command to cells was slightly different: be fruitful and divide
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“You Can Stand Under My Umbrella, Ella, Ella”

I always like to know where I stand and I always bring an umbrella that can double
I Was Born into a Family, but I Wasn’t a Member Until I Paid the Price of Admission

All raw deals Are some version of the following: If we screw up You’ll keep your mouth shut Because if you draw attention to i…
“Take That Garbage to St. Elsewhere”

How anti-Semites use exegesis to… against the Jews: Step 1 – Cite Love your Enemy Step 2- Interpret
We All Know Where the British Empire’s Bodies Are Buried but We’ve Always Already Tumbled to Decorum

Most people can get away with sweeping a few things under the ru… but when I started working at the… I couldn’t help noticing how the rugs looked like
The World’s Most Powerful Bureaucracy Releases Its Vision and Mission Statements

Vision: In an age when there is n… Mission: Because time flies when…
Parenting

I told my daughter Let me give you some free advice: You get what you pay for And she said I don’t get it
American End Stage

Failure to pay the narcissistic wa… results in a fit of rage that cannot be assuaged short of an all against all rampag…
Kiss My Ash

There was always an urn on the man… made from terra cotta Little then did I know it was for the remains of the persona non gra…
The Battle of Gog and Magog and Everything After

Forgetting that God has promised To never repeat the Flood We’ve busied ourselves opening the… Expecting to end it all As we flood the planes
“Benefiting and hurting others are ways of exercising one’s power over them– that is all that one wants in such cases!”

Your brain doesn’t know the differ… between physical and psychological… knowing only what they have in com… Because both are life threatening your brain sends you into fight, f…
All My Control Needs Come from Fear of Abandonment, so God Sent Me Someone Whom No One Can Control but Who Will Never Leave Me

I was happy alone Because being together Meant being lonely Until you showed me That being together
Jacob’s Ladder Is a Rope Ladder

You are a rope which The devil has tied up in knots Only God can help you Untie the knots When you unfurl



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