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From: sharon@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl,rec.arts.poems
Subject: listen (a perl poem)
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Date: 3 Mar 91 22:27:49 GMT
Reply-To: sharon@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Don't expect this to *do* anything:  I had a hard enough time just getting
it to parse in both perl and English!

#!/usr/bin/perl

APPEAL:

listen (please, please);

    open yourself, wide,
	join (you, me),
    connect (us,together),

tell me.

do something if distressed;
    
	@dawn, dance;
	@evening, sing;
	read (books,poems,stories) until peaceful;
	study if able;
    
	write me if-you-please;

sort your feelings, reset goals, seek (friends, family, anyone);

	    do not die (like this) if sin abounds;


keys (hidden), open locks, doors, tell secrets;
    do not, I-beg-you, close them, yet.

				accept (yourself, changes),
				bind (grief, despair);

    require truth, goodness if-you-will, each moment;


select (always), length-of-days



# Sharon Hopkins, Feb. 21, 1991