#!/usr/bin/perl
# steal_this_poem.pl: Perl implementation of
# "steal this poem"  by Claire Fauset
# See: http://tinyurl.com/58p8e for original

my $poem = Poem->new("copyleft"); 
foreach (@your_ends) {
    $you = "Free to " . 
        $poem->distribute() . 
        $poem->diffuse() .
        $poem->dismantle() . 
        $poem->abuse() .
        $poem->reproduce() .  
        $poem->confuse();
    $poem->ending($yours);
}

open (SOURCE, "this_poem"); 
$public_domain=$poem;
if(exists $you[$want]) {$salt++;$pepper++;};
foreach(my @friends) {$_+=$source;};
$poem{'author'} != $me;
$poem{'moulder'} = $me;
while ($i{'walk'} < $here){
    push (@lines,$skip_contents[$x++]);
}
$rescue = $destination{'landfill'}{'leftover_ideas'};
$screwed_up_fragments =~ /usable/;
$use{$screwed_up_fragments} ;
$it{'about'}{'think'};
!$me{'tell_new'}{'you'};
$#ideas_to_think - $#new_ideas < $many;
foreach(@new_ideas){ $_+="rare commodity" };
foreach(@arctic_reserves) { 
    push (@new_ideas,$_) if $_ < $permafrost;
    $_ = $patent_protection{'suffocate'};
} 
$them[$reuse];$them[$recycle];
while($idea_pile < $anyones_imagination) { $idea_pile++; } 

$i{'steal'}=($here{'riff'} . $there{'rhyme'} .
         $here{'verse'} . $there{'line'});

foreach(@circle){$_ += $them{'pass'};}
$you = $high > 0 ? $yes : $no ; 
$Poem{'indebted'} .= "Abbie Hoffman" . "Gil Scott Heron" .  
"Sarah Jones";
$Poem{'indebted'} .= $me{'words_read'} . $me{'voices_heard'};
$Poem{''} .= $intellect{'composite'} . 
         $you{'intellect'} . 
         $me{'intellect'};
$RIPPED_OFF = $Poem;

$intellectual_property == $theft && 
    $piracy == $us{'defend'} - $thought_police;
! $thought == $new_thought;
@it = ["rewired","refined","remastered","reproduced"];
$revolution .= "plagarised";
unless ($us{'ideas'}!="corporatised") {$revolution=0};

sub steal_this_poem() {
    foreach(@your_ends) {
        $you .= $poem->take() . $poem->use();
    }
    $poem->ending($your_ending);
} 

$this_poem = Poem->new("copyleft"); 
$all_rights=reverse $rights;

my $ending="The revolution will not be analogue";
$poem->ending($ending);


#####################################################
package Poem ;
    sub new() {
        my($class) = shift;
        bless {},$class;
    }
    sub distribute(){}
    sub diffuse(){}
        sub dismantle(){}  
    sub abuse() {}
    sub reproduce() {}  
    sub confuse(){}
    sub ending() {
        my ($self)=shift;
        (my ($ending)=shift) ? print $ending . "\n" : 0;
    }
    sub take(){}

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