I used to be ... Add to Spiritual Diary This is a poem saved in my Favourite Poems folder, and one of those I use when teaching young people - and many older ones too - that poetry is not necessarily the rhyming kind we were taught to write in school, often with words tortured to fit the end of a sentence so it rhymed ‘correctly’! Some poems make us pause. They evoke thoughts; stir the imagination. I Used to Be but Now I Am by Ted Berrigan But now I am elusive. I used to be the future of America,