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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Takeoff, Eh!

The scientific method
has, at long last
arrived at a unifying theory
which, for it
is a dead end
but for us
is the end of the runway:
Love shouldn’t work,
but it does

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The Tail Is Not a Poisonous Stinger After All

Rock and roll may be dead but it’s got one of the great corp… like a dead horseshoe crab
The Circle Is Eternal, Without Beginning or End

We fear that the long game Is a long, lost game Because we find ourselves lost Forgetting how, on the surface of… We can plow forward in trust
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Nobody Wants Me, but Maybe They Need Me

Having priced myself Out of the market I’ve rebranded as generic
Notice I Said Get To, Not Have To

There is one reason And one reason alone That God won’t ever give up on yo… You are His job And God loves His job
I’ve Always Listened to My Gut Except When It Told Me I Was About to Be Gutted

It takes guts to admit you don’t belong but it’s easy to read a sign that says No admission
Live Long and Proper

Over the course of life I’ve never managed to finish anyth… but for always completing my course of antibiotics
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?
What the Heck Is Going on Here?

The world has gone to heck And heck is hell Minus the pleasure
Poetry Is Like Farting in Public

Because bodies make a fart joke of… etiquette used to dictate that whe… passed gas at, e.g., a dinner part… the polite thing to do was to pret… the fart never happened
I Prefer Football, but I Have to Admit, Soccer Is Life

You can’t call timeout in soccer But you can fake an injury You can’t call timeout in life But you can fake yourself out By believing you’ve faked us all o…
The New Love and Work

Serve (one another) and Play (together)
Yes to Love and Work!

Nietzsche imagined eternal recurre… as the ultimate Yes to life! whereas Jews understand that life is a lot of love and work
The Reward for Good Work Is Always More Work Unless the Reward Is Shabbos

Nothing is esoteric The mystical is the every-day There are no secrets But there is a lot of denial
It’s a Free Country, but That Doesn’t Mean You Get a Free Ride; In Fact, It Means the Opposite

It always comes back to Love and work– The whole point of Love of country Is found in doing the work
Drawn but Not Misbegotten

When they drew a winner It looked like we’d won By the luck of the draw But we came by our good fortune The honest way:



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