Way To Teach the Right and Wrong Way

Here is a lesson I just learned

And gladly hopefully in future
take on board 

That in regards to teaching and wishing
to correct in order to improve 

There is both a right and wrong way

To tell someone that person what
they had done wrong

And also how they then may be able
to correct it

So speaking personally and only on 
behalf of myself 

I would ever so sincerely like to give
my eternal gratitude and thanks

To S . E for teaching me the value 
of this lesson 

Then thereafter it is solely down to
i

If I then choose to carry on regardless
blinded however misguided that may be

Because I cannot bare the thought
I could never not be deemed correct

And this i often think is why sadly
more often than not

My poems and what I write because it
is so littered with basic elementary 
grammatical and error strewed mistakes

Those who are both blessed and proficient
in English find my poems barely able to
read let alone finish 

And yes to this fact I am patently aware
and willingly have to hold my hands up to
and truthfully admit 

Unfortunately though I can't rectify what
I don't know I am doing wrong however
incorrect

As I only just recently found out at the 
grand old age of my 40 odd year's plus 

I have found a fondness for and like
writing which I never knew let alone
contemplated I would

Because if I did then just maybe I would
have tried and payed more attention at
when

When my English teacher was trying her
level best to teach me how to write 

And why almost all of my teachers used
to say of me I would never amount
to anything

And technically they were half right

As if nothing else

I am a halfwit 

Who still can't and never took the
time to master how to read or write

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Date: 12/10/2022 3:01:00 PM
Ah good one Christopher I guess i’m the other half of the halfwit, but in truth nobody is perfect except for the self deluded ones, nothing worse than being too stupid to know you’re stupid, cheers David
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 12/11/2022 7:21:00 AM
Cheer's David Nice 1 ta very much thank you Sir for listening much obliged
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