Driven

Drive driven drove
Hide hidden hid
Play played played
Say said said
Swing swung swang
is that a real word
write written wrote
He is hidden.
Adjective or verb
question questioning questioned
leave the continuous out
for a moment
a pause
confusion
flickers or near comprehension
masked by the rushing clouds of doubt

I’m good at this and after a day of self doubt
it’s good to have my hands on
concrete facts
but I’m out of practise,
knowledge hiding behind
questions of ethics
in class today.
The only ethics in this ESL class
involves a decision to leave the cross dressing question
out of the activity.
My ethics, saturating a classroom.

What are the ethics of the closet?
Ideals vs. safety, playing chicken
in the middle of the desert.
Maybe the dust will remove
blame
and guilt.