September 5, 2007
#312: With Apologies to Robert Frost
A God’s Lament
Some said the world should be in Perl;
Some said in Lisp.
Now, having given both a whirl,
I held with those who favored Perl.
But I fear we passed to men
A disappointing founding myth,
And should we write it all again,
I’d end it with
A close-paren.