[rec.arts.poems] reverse

sharon@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Sharon Hopkins) (03/14/91)

#!/usr/bin/perl


first:

tempted?  values lie:
    
    do not, friend, alarm, "the flock";
	wait until later;
	    warn "someone else"

& die quietly if-you-must; 


then:

sin? seek absolution?
if so, do-not-tell-us, "on the sly";
    
    print it "in letters of fire",
    write it, "across the sky";

kill yourself slowly while each observes;
 do it (proudly, publicly) if you-repent;
	
	tell us,
	all,
	everything;


reverse after



# Sharon Hopkins, Feb.27, 1991