# vast - flames
#
# note: this wount run, at all...
# this is my first attempt at some perl "poetry",
# so please try to keep the laughter to a minimum =D.
#
# ^jasper
#-----------------
# close your eyes
# let me touch you now
# let me give you something that is real
# close the door
# leave your fears behind
# let me give you what you're giving me
# you are the only thing
# that makes me want to live at all
# when i am with you
# there's no reason to pretend that
# when i am with you
# i feel flames again
# just put me inside you
# i would never ever leave
# just put me inside you
# i would never ever leave you

close(YOUR_EYES);

$me->touch($you,NOW) if $you->let($me);

$me->give($you,$something->that_is('real')) if $you->let($me);

close(THE_DOOR);

leave($your->fears,BEHIND);

$me->give($you,$you->give($me)) if $you->let($me);

$me->live('only_reason') = $you;

$me->pretend = 0 if $me->with($you);

$me->feel('flames')++ if $me->with($you);

$me->never_ever_leave() = 1 if put($me,$you,INSIDE);

$me->never_ever_leave($you) = 1 if put($me,$you,INSIDE);

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Re: Vast_-_Flames
by benn (Vicar) on Apr 20, 2003 at 09:50 UTC
    Nice - I like '++' for 'again' :)
    A nice idiomatic touch would be to use '$self' for '$me' - $self is a commonly-used variable name in OOP.
    You could also do something cute with "never_ever_leave" - an infinite loop maybe...and there's something ticking over in my head about 'reason'.....damn - I'm going to have to write another pome now :)
    Keep up the good work.
    Ben
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      Thanks =D.
      I thought about using '$self' instead of '$me', but at the last minute I went with '$me'. /me shrugs. Wrote it in a hurry.

      And the infinite loop would be kind of cool. 
      while(1) if put($me,$you,INSIDE);

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      Thanks for the feedback.
      ^jasper
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