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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

Neither Optimist nor Pessimist, I’m a Monotheist

Our glass
Is an hourglass
And whether it is half-full
Or half-empty
Time is running out
 
Mind you
An hourglass is never empty
Because the work is never done
Even though there are deadlines

Altre opere di Chris Gaither...
You Only Live Once

Each of us gets to ask God one question and this question is your life
Harvest Soon

We’re all like unharvested potatoe… covered in dirt thinking that means we’ve got the dirt on each other
I Lived from a Broken Heart

A heart can only beat in synch with another A broken heart still beats because God keeps the time– just as He keeps us–
“The narcissist’s whole life is a two-fold attempt to both satisfy the inexorable demands of his inner tribunal and to prove wrong its harsh and critical nature”

The narcissist is a two—sided coin… Heads, I need you Tails, I hate you– and the more you meet a narcissist… the more they will hate you
Epic Fail

Alas Nobody wakes up in the morning To kiss my ass Miraculously I don’t wake up in the morning
How Do I Love Me? (Sonnet #1)

How do I love me? Let me count t… I love me to the depths of my stom… and when in line in front of a lum… I’ll take the last fried rice in t… I love me to the level of Wall St…
My Favorite Question Is: Who Comes in First, the Chicken or the Nice Guys

Do me a favor and riddle me this: Is he favored to win Because he’s our favorite Or is he our favorite Because he’s favored to win?
True or False: “Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Such Thing as Wisdom”

In a post-pandemic bid to remain relevant the SATs have removed all true/false questions in acknowledgment that such questi…
The Last Resort

When I run out of things to do I write an itinerary: When all else fails fill sandbags to convert
“Sweetness, Sweetness I Was Only Joking”

Thinking of happiness as the meaning of life is like thinking of sugar as the meaning of food
I Didn’t Come Up With Every Word of This, but I Feel Like We’re Up to Every Bit of It

The devil is in the details And God is in my feelings Here are the details on my feeling… I feel like The devil is just here to force th…
The Blame Game Never Had a Slaughter Rule; It Still Doesn’t

Old habits are hard to break but impossible to make New habits, like flossing, are easy to make
It’s Not as Cool as Boba Fett’s

When at last my colleagues convinced me to go out after work and I’d relaxed enough to drop my… everyone could finally see my helm…
Monogamy Does Go Well With the Chicken! Delicious again, Peter

Because we know we must die and that survival depends on belonging we all live in fear
The Presidency Reduced to a Device in the Divorce Plot

It took the spies of Five Eyes to tell that Putin wasn’t bluffin’ But just ask the staff at Five Gu… and they’ll tell you Trump’s MacG… He longs for Daddy’s approval



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