this is so good - Brian Bilston’s work:
Tense Christmas
I The Ghost of Christmas Past Perfect Progressive
Midnight. Awoken by a ghost.
I thought I must be raving.
But then he went and showed me
how badly I'd been behaving.
II The Ghost of Christmas Present Perfect Simple
The next night, a ghost again:
with a much more recent scene.
More evidence piling up
of how unpleasant I have been.
Ill The Ghost of Christmas Future Unreal Conditional
A final late night ghostly vision.
But this one lacked the pain and strife.
I saw if I could be a kinder man,
I would create a better life.
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