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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Hell Is Keeping Score with Other People

Why bother keeping score
when death assures that
things always end in a tie
 
Soon you’ll be able to
get rid of death
but eternal life
becomes eternal damnation
when you’re trying to win a game
that never ends

Other works by Chris Gaither...
You’ll Get Nothing but Money and Like It!

The only stipulation they put on our capitulation was against any abrogation in accepting their congratulations
“Don’t Look Back in Anger”

To avoid road rage all rearview mirrors have been replaced by screens displaying a real-time computerize… of the way things ought to be
To Hell With It

On the Mt. Rushmore of cartoon mice I would put four Jerrys
You Only Live Once

Each of us gets to ask God one question and this question is your life
There Are No Right or Wrong Answers Because There Are No Answers

If you’re looking for answers life is a wild goose chase If you’re looking for the next que… life is a never-ending scavenger h…
Who Wants It More?

God gave us all of creation In which to luxuriate Together Instead We chose to deconstruct
Love, American Style

My house built in the 1920s still has a TV antenna like a tattoo you got in early mid… with which you’ve come to have
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
I Am That I Am and Rules Are Rules

All words are defined by other words except for God’s rule
A Dollar Doesn’t Go as Far as It Used To, so, I Don’t Go as Far as I Used To

Actually, we all died in the pande… Life– I can’t afford not to Pandemic life– I can’t afford to… The afterlife– I can’t afford not…
Eight Rhymes with Hate

It took years of therapy but the octopus finally arrived at… that the reason she didn’t like th… was because they were so much alik…
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God Is Some Combination of Love and Work and Death, but God Is One, so, I Guess We’ll Live Forever When We Come to See Love and Work and Death as the Same Thing

Some people say They were born too late; I was almost born too soon But then along came the internet Just in time to stop time–
Haiku

You can only e– ver explain things with that which cannot be explained
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…
Filtered Cigarettes Are Safe

When I filter my selfie it becomes a safie



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