I think it's far better to ridicule a poem in public, rather than try to sweep it under the carpet.

And that's some bad Perl code. I don't think the author realises what that code does. chomp, as you well know, chops a bit off the end of something. Personally, you do that to me, I'd get pretty irate. So that should really read:

    chomp (my $dick) and die ("")
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