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BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
     open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us); 
write it, print the hex while each watches,
     reverse its length, write again;
     kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
          unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait), 
sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
     kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
     values aside, each one;
          die sheep! die to reverse the system
          you accept (reject, respect);
next step, 
     kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
     wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased"; 
     do it ("as they say").
do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*). 
return last victim; package body;
     exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
     select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
AFTERWORDS: tell nobody. 
     wait, wait until time;
     wait until next year, next decade;
          sleep, sleep, die yourself,
          die at last

Larry Wall, lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
Taken from Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry meets the Perl Programming Language
by Sharon Hopkins, used with permission
 
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