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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

The Great Pretender

There are no endings
neither happy nor sad–
Does this make you happy or sad?
 
I pretend to answer the question
by preferring songs that end
to those that just fade out
but that’s just my way
of putting the ending
in pretending

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The Usual and the Damned

A dissident today is anyone who realizes that since you’re damned if you do damned if you don’t
They Would Bring Us to Heel. Instead, We Choose to Heal.

If it ain’t broke Don’t fix it So, in case of emergency Break heart To break free
Better to Lack Forgiveness Than to Bask in Permission

My life as ode to permission seeking was just a road to perdition strictly speaking Broadly speaking
Unconscious, Conscious, Post-conscious

Human beings have always been figh… with one hand tied behind our back… Unconscious human intelligence ena… to act without thinking and conscious human intelligence a…
Death Is a Pit Stop

Slow and steady wins the race If there is no finish line How do you win If you can’t finish first? If you’re the one
Education Is to Liberation as Overeducation Is to Subordination

The cogito may be airtight but its reverse– I am, therefore I think– is less certain
The Shame of It All

I am just like everyone else In that I am nothing like anyone… Which is how I am one While we too are one
In the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve Ate Fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil; In the Fall of Cyborgs, We Just Fell Through a Hole

I’ve done the math and the whole is only greater than the sum of its parts when the group is made up of individuals
What Is the Universal Distress Signal for Choking Ourselves?

We put tracking collars around ani… We put smartphones in our hands And in holding them We have our hands around our necks
God Knows, If We Ever Find Meaning on the Road We’ll Surely Kill It, so, God Made the Meaning of Life Our Search for Meaning

Language shouldn’t work A word, all words Are defined by other words Defined by still further words And on and on
I Had a Dream that I went to Sleep Without Taking My Contacts Out but When I Woke Up I Remembered that I Only Wear Reading Contacts and I Haven’t Been Able to Find Any Good Books

Finding God is like that feeling… When you look everywhere for your… But can’t find them anywhere Until you realize they are on your… They don’t have a word for this fe…
E Pluribus Unum

Heads you take the risk Tails I take the reward i.e., Out of many risks, one fortune
“A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing”

Eat, drink And be merry But don’t drink And derive
Freud, Summarized

Dreams don’t come true; They are true
Your Life Is a Dream; What Wish Is It Fulfilling?

Hell is having infinite wishes but using them all to wish for infinite wishes Heaven is having infinite wishes but only needing



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