True

one never gets a second chance
to make that first impression

Though in fact

sometimes the best impression
doesn’t happen
at least until the second or third try

As others will understand

we’re not always at our best
when that first time arrives

They being the same way

© 1991
Inputted and revised © 2017

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06/11/2017

Author's Note: The closing poem in Missing Pieces.

Posted on 06/11/2017
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