When You Fail To Get Me Right

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polycarp
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When You Fail To Get Me Right

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Stars at night

Cease not to baffle me

For know I not

How came they to be

The mind from awe

Never let me free

For its depths

Are but puzzles in spree



Nought but tangling

As are these to me

So is misapprehension

Of my lines by thee!
A formula for tact: "Be brief politely, be aggressive smilingly, be emphatic pleasantly, be positive diplomatically, be right graciously".
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polycarp
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When You Fail To Get Me Right

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Thanks tmbsgrl, by the way, how is Tim doing?
A formula for tact: "Be brief politely, be aggressive smilingly, be emphatic pleasantly, be positive diplomatically, be right graciously".
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