Category: Poetry

The Past, The Future, Focus

Carl Setzer

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>stories of the past

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p style=”font-size:16px;”>yet I look to the future

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p style=”font-size:16px;”>I am far from done

Met a really cool guy today. A former Navy nuclear power program sailor, just like me. Though he is quite a bit younger. 

Swapped stories of our respective experiences, which I enjoyed. Yet I often worry in those moments that I’ll become like the subject of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days”, a relic, trapped in the past. Grave fate, for me, at least. 

The Ampersand 

Carl Setzer

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Ah, the ampersand!

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>A glorious path

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Uniting, bringing

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Ideas, people,

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>All things

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p style=”font-family:"font-size:16px;”>Together