Inflected Form II
Apparently, we don’t do a lot of waiting.
We run, walk, sleep, and more,
but must not be doing much waiting…
or at least we seldom say that we are waiting.
And yet, it seems to me that we actually do quite
a lot of waiting,
but must keep our waiting secret
because to wait is a verb which is regularly conjugated, not to mean regularly like often, rather, in regular form.
And usually it is the most commonly used verbs that take on an irregular form.
We wait and have waited while others have to find another strange word to tell us what happened yesterday:
Run must find ran
Leave must find left
See must find saw
Send must find sent
Give must find gave
Go must find went
But wait only waited, and waited,
and is surely waiting still.