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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.

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