Hmmm... Someone obviously thought I was being snitty here, when in fact I didn't intend to be.

While I don't mind perl poetry that doesn't compile, or even perl poetry that looks as if it was code and doesn't compile; perl poetry that pretends to be code but doesn't even look reasonable, but appears instead to be simply stringing a poem together for the most part with a bunch of double colons, needs to be commented on.

Nevertheless, I didn't vote it down, as an attempt at perl poetry is better than no perl poetry; but perhaps I should have been more specific in my criticism...

( I also probably would have been less bothered by it had the subject matter had been perl-related.)

As it is what we have is bad code, and bad construction, mediocre (at best) poetry, with no reason to perlized, and perlization done poorly... Can anyone explain why someone would waste a vote voting my post down? Too short? They liked the poem? though I was bashing the author? It's incomprhensible to me.

In reply to RE: RE: Father and Son by raflach
in thread Father and Son by AgentKelly

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