I Am Drive

I AM DRIVE Teaching English is the best job under the sun Students learn some, I learn more Working with foreigners is hard but fun Repeating till your tongue gets sore Native speakers like you ( and me too ) Don’t have to think about tenses of a verb And irregular adjectives or how to Pronounce words like “clothes” and such blurb But these students do. And if they want to linguistically survive We must not miss their cue. The other day a student says to me, “I am drive.” I figured he meant, “I am driving.” ( present progressive tense ) But for fun I said, “Ok man, but I don’t have a car, so I am walk.” He caught the joke with better sense And then he got courage and began to talk - Which was better than simply being struck dumb By the present progressive, Or feeling helpless and numb And depressive rather than expressive.