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