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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
Taken from Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry meets the Perl Programming Language
by Sharon Hopkins, used with permission
 
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