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<<;
done with my thesis 

shift @gears;
study($no_more); 
send(email, to, join(@the, @party, system));

open(with, ">a happy greeting");
time, to, join (@the, flock(with, $relaxed), values %and_have_fun); 
connect(with_old, $friends);
rename($myself, $name = "ilyn"); 
$attend, local($parties); 

pack(food, and, games);
wait; for (it) {;};

goto party;
open Door; 
send(greetings, to, hosts, guests); 
party:

tell stories;
listen(to_stories, at . length); 
read(comics, $philosophy, $games); 

seek(partners, $for, $fun);
select(with), caution; 
each %seeks, %joy; 

$consume, pop @and_food;
print $name .$on .$glass;

$lasers, $shine; while ($batteries) { last;}; 

time; $to, sleep
sin, perhaps;

$rest,$till .$next .$weekend;

Craig Counterman, April 27, 1991, ccount@athena.mit.edu
Taken from Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry meets the Perl Programming Language
by Sharon Hopkins, used with permission
 
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