You call that easy? Holy camel shit, is POE ridiculously verbose. Try this instead:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.010;
use strictures;
use AnyEvent qw();
my %events;
$events{function1} = AE::timer(0, 6, sub { say q(I'm function 1!); });
$events{function2} = AE::timer(0, 6, sub { say q(I'm function 2!); });
$events{main} = AE::cv->recv;
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