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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Happiness, H-A-P-P-I-N-E-S-S, Happiness

Whoever said
It’s lonely at the top
must have never had
their own spelling group
in third grade

Other works by Chris Gaither...
All This for Nothing

People want to get rich because they think money will make them happy People want to stay rich because they know that money
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…
Ignorance Is Half-in for a Ha’penny, Blissed-out for a Pound

Faced with a forced choice The agnostic feigns ignorance For if you ask a woman to marry yo… And she says I don’t know
With or Against

The duel with yourself is whether Your life will be a duel with God Or a duel against others This is the fight of your life And you have two hands
Cleaning Up After Myself

The brain is the heart’s fifth chamber and I am the chambermaid
I’ll Tell You a Secret– Father Knows Best Really Means Decide for Yourself; Decide for Yourself If You Believe Me

The smartest gal in the room Is the one who realizes All the adults in the room Are emotional children Behaving like holy terrors
I Wore #42 in Basketball Because My Life Is 42% Gold

Thinking that the purpose of life… things looked good enough on the s… to believe that my life was 24-karat gold Who knew that the purpose of beaut…
Nothing Ever Changes: The World Will Be Made and Remade, Forever and Ever

The dream has always been To build a time machine And go back in time To change the present But some things never change–
“Avatars give you the feeling that you are truly inside the virtual world rather than the real world”

By now, everybody knows Rick Deck… So, we know that when replicants r… from slave labor they are hunted down and “retired”… in service to the true humans
The Truth Hurts Because It Sets You Free and the Truth Is That the Image of Hell as an Inferno of Torment Is a Lie; Hell Is the Most Comfortable Place on Earth

I was voluntold to make myself sca… But scarcely do they realize In pretending to give me a choice They have unwittingly given me an… Truth or dare?
Ain’t That Something

The first half of life: If it ain’t broke Don’t fix it The second half of life: If you can’t fix it
Social Media Isn’t Even a Cult, Because at Least Cults Offer Belonging; Social Media Is an Addiction and Addicts Suffer Alone

It was only after The social media firestorm Had burned our civilization down That we rose from the ashes Like a phoenix
It’s a Sign

Thanks to QR codes you can sign-in without your signature much as for some time now your phone has enabled you
Haiku

When I was a kid people grew on me like grass Now they’re more like sod
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A Real Class Act

According to F. Scott Fitzgerald… “The test of a first-rate intellig… is the ability to hold two opposin… in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to fu…



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