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Chris Gaither

Chris Gaither

That Self Is Very Becoming on You

If the soul is eternal
then self-overcoming
more than becoming who you really are
is becoming who you always were
 
It’s like peeling away
all the layers of an onion
expecting nothing
only to find
nothing you expected

Other works by Chris Gaither...
The Ur-Humble Brag

Never Win Anything
Talk Show Ghost

In phase one we lived in order to live In phase two we talked in order to live In phase three,
Thy Will Be Done

The kingdom of heaven is like a tr… where gentlemen may remove their h… while all others must
The Knowledge of Certain Death is Just Too Taxing

All forms of certainty are mutations of knowing that you must die which is why the true believer is always the most likely
The Occult Process from Obsessed to Possessed

Once you have gained accession to the object of your obsession you’ll remain incapable of graspin… let alone even asking if you just might be the object of…
Climates Don’t Change People, People Do. Thank God.

The saying goes: We learn from the past, but we don… But the reverse is also true: If we don’t learn from the past, t… In other words
In Becoming a Jew One of the First Things I Learned Is That a Jew by Any Other Name Is Still a Jew

The only ones Who antisemites hate more than Je… Are Jews who defend themselves There is a name For their belief system:
Breathe

If you made a Venn Diagram of my office and a coal mine the only thing you’d put where the… is the canary we keep by the copie… If the canary is dead
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God, Gold, and Glory

Given a ship that would never sink we proceeded to run it aground in search of
Haiku

And then it hit me: My lone flaw is not admitt– ing to any flaws
It Really Is the Journey

If it’s not anticlimactic it wasn’t worth all the effort
No Such Thing

Lunch is born free but everywhere is in chain restaurants
L’Chaim

Mating For Life Saved My
Nothing Numbs the Pain, So, Let’s Have Nothing

The good Hurts so good The bad Hurts so bad And the ugly
KLM is Gonna Shock You

In 2019 KLM Airlines began advertising that you should take the train instead; it felt like being asked to open up the marriage



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