<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365873" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tense, You Buggers, Tense!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If ‘I CAN’ can, it’s done right away, <br>‘I CAN’ never can do it yesterday, <br>‘I can see, I can do, I can hear, I can feel, <br>‘I can go, I can stay, I can move, I can steal.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If ‘I COULD’ ever could, then he’d do it last week<br>Because ‘I COULD’ and ‘I DID’ are best mates, (so to speak) .<br>‘I could see, I could do, I could hear, I could feel, <br>I could go, I could stay, I could move, I could steal.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If ‘I DID’ ever did it, the deed has been done, <br>‘I DID’ never does it right now, old son.<br>‘I did not' - 'You did too' - 'So I did, you can sue, '<br>'What I did, when I did it, I did it for you.’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If ‘I WILL’ or ‘I WOULD’ or ‘I SHOULD’ are your thing, <br>Then don’t hold your breath, it’ll happen next spring, <br>‘I will go, I will come, I will be, I will see, <br>I would stay if I could, I should get home for tea.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But if ‘I HAVE DONE’ ever comes raising it's head<br>The time has now gone, and the battle is dead.<br>‘I have seen, I have heard, I have said in the past<br>I have travelled the world, I have finished, at last! ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Written for my Chinese English students, in desperation, when they mixed past, present and future tenses in the same sentence) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">7 April 2006</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365873" data-title="Tense, You Buggers, Tense! de David Lewis Paget" data-description="If ‘I CAN’ can, it’s done right away, ‘I CAN’ never can do it yesterday, ‘I can see, I can do, I can hear, I can feel, ‘I can go, I can stay, I can move, I can steal.’ If ‘I COULD’ ever could, then he’d do it last week Be..."></div> </div> </div>

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