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Sharon Hopkins  
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 More options Mar 3 1991, 11:54 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl, rec.arts.poems
From: sha...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Sharon Hopkins)
Date: 3 Mar 91 22:27:49 GMT
Local: Sun, Mar 3 1991 5:27 pm
Subject: listen (a perl poem)
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


 
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Kerry Shetline  
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 More options Mar 11 1991, 4:28 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl, rec.arts.poems
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From: kshetl...@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline)
Date: 11 Mar 91 18:41:01 GMT
Local: Mon, Mar 11 1991 1:41 pm
Subject: Re: listen (a perl poem)
In article <11...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> sha...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV

(Sharon Hopkins) writes:
> APPEAL:

> listen (please, please);

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

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


 
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Jefferson Ogata  
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 More options Mar 14 1991, 10:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
From: og...@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata)
Date: 14 Mar 91 11:38:14 GMT
Local: Thurs, Mar 14 1991 6:38 am
Subject: Re: listen (a perl poem)
In article <63...@bbn.BBN.COM> kshetl...@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes:

|> In article <11...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> sha...@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
|> (Sharon Hopkins) writes:

|> > APPEAL:
|> >
|> > listen (please, please);
|> >
|> >     open yourself, wide,
|> >         join (you, me),
|> >     connect (us,together),
|>
|> 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


 
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