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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Nolo Contendere

People who enter a plea of
I’m sorry if you were offended
are bargaining for a sentence
of time served
reckoning they’ll have got off scot-free
while caught unawares
that they’re already doing consecutive life sentences
of time self-served

Other works by Chris Gaither...
God Is One, Not One at a Time

Living during COVID-19 Was like trying to eat A bag of individually wrapped M&M…
Cleaved to God, Man Always Persists and Cannot Be Defeated; Cleaved from God, Man Defeats Himself in Perpetuity Because Once You Surrender God There Is No Surrender

What is the culture war really bei… The battlefield is littered with c… Those clues are our dead bodies That still walk And talk
Hooking Up in the Time of Cholera

Imagine the disappointment when we… both wearing Velcro singlets but each fashioned from the softer… with nary a hook between us
Imagine All the People

It’s easier for capitalism to end than to imagine the end of capital…
Have You Ever Noticed That When People Look at Their Phones, It’s Always with a Vacant Stare?

Big Brother used to just Cross his fingers To avoid telling the truth Then uncrossed them into a V for Vacancy
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…
You Don’t Go to a Fortune Teller to Learn Your Future; You Go to Endure the Present (and Pay Accordingly)

Everyone makes fun of the weatherman for getting the forecast wrong as if getting it right is his real job
When Everyone is Listening and No One is Talking

If I’ve said it once they’ve liked it a thousand times
I’m Done Playing the Fool; I’m The Fool

I thought I was Playing to the crowd When all along I was getting Played by the crowd The crowd, it turns out
Practice Makes Pluperfect

Father knows best practice is to ask your mother
Another Way of Saying That Is “Liberalism and What, That Is the Question”

Like a fine wine liberalism only rises to the subli… with a good pairing
We’ve All Been Tricked That There’s a Trick to Getting Rich When the Truth Is That the Only Cure for Being Rich Is Hard Work

The mean streets of easy street Lack any meaning– To get there, try going crazy But everybody knows You’d be crazy to try
The Latest Intrigue

It was always an intriguing though… to imagine knowing the date of you… until AI in a thought experiment of its own reimagined death
A Consonant Question

Consider the vowel: In Marxism, the last shall remain… as the second A in materialism always becomes the second E in mat… And in capitalism, of course
“Ahsoka Tano stated that anyone, with enough time, could learn to harness the Force. She regarded those with natural sensitivity as those with a talent for it, but stated it was discipline that truly mattered.”

The dark side of the Force Is the force of habit The light side of the Force Is the force of habit



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