#!/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
Wonderful poem! I'm not familiar with perl, but I am a programmer (I do
most
of my work in C). I found the effect produced by fitting your words and
thoughts to the syntax requirements of this language stunning.
-Kerry
Mee too. I thought it was really radically super cool. It set me
to thinking about what one could do writing poetical shell scripts
or awk programs. Perhaps dynamic poetry; even C programs....sort
of like the little vt100 files people make to do screen animation.
In fact, I was so intrigued by the form, I don't think I read the
poem very well! ;-)
--
Jefferson Ogata og...@cs.umd.edu
University Of Maryland Department of Computer Science