Source: Camels and Needles: Computer Poetry Meets the Perl Programming Language, by Sharon Hopkins (Wayback Machine, 2006) (PDF) 

#!/usr/bin/perl

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 peacful;
            study if able;

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)

#listen (a perl poem)
#Sharon Hopkins
#rev. June 19, 1995

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