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# The Funny Thing
- URL: https://the-stardust-journal-press.ghost.io/the-funny-thing/
- Published: 2025-07-06T12:45:12.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-01T16:50:59.000Z
- Author: Daniel Rutberg
- Tags: poetry, Aging, my future, perspective, #Migrated-1782924600586, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-01 12:50

The funny thing about the condition my condition is in  
is that I spend my days traveling through time—  
reliving the past,  
guffawing at the present,  
and casting and recasting, like a fly fisherman  
in those ridiculous waterproof overalls,  
into the rapids of the everchanging river  
of the possibilities of my own future.

To complicate things even further,  
the point of view—and the viewer—shift as well:  
my younger self,  
with less sympathy than I would’ve imagined,  
observes the old man I’ve become.

And the older self sees much more folly in my youth,  
through the bifocals of my current age—  
even after I give these spectacles a good cleaning.

My many selves look forward  
in mixed waves—  
of excitement, angst, fear, and trepidation.

There is a cure for this dilemma,  
but I think I’ll suffer on  
and take the cure sometime in the future.

Oh well, let me get back to it.  
The funny thing about the condition my condition is in…