So how do you write? Take something everyone else takes for granted and stand it on its head. Imagine their faces as what these people expect blows up in them. Find your inner imp and follow where she leads.
Friday, April 11, 2008
I am Engrish Teacha!
Teaching Englishee velee haard
It does to dlive-us away the baard
Especiary when styoo-dunt says eet best
that "praying sportsu relieves my stless"
You cannot-- cannot-- make to laugh
As teacha, must to do not make them cry
You must leally help your styoo-dunt learn
Even dough you feel like die
(Oh so solly Teacha, "Die-ying";
"Feel like dying")
The onry thingus keep you sane
When listuning Engrish cause you pain
are fact daht styoo-dunts are your fliends
and, daht "soon" is when bad rhyming ends
ESL is a priestly vocation and
you ain't alone in thinking this--
Us ESL teachers need a long vacation.
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Poking fun at the job, okay? not my students.
Many of them are dedicated, disciplined professionals who want a better life in places where English is spoken as a language of power and commerce. And I do want to help them, with most of my heart.
Written for Poem a Day.
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