But -w complains greatly inter alia: Unquoted string "suckers" may clash with future reserved word This, of course, is a reference to a reserved word in the future version of Perl to be shipped with Visual Stew-dee-oh 7.9 :-)
Updated: This is not in any way a gripe - your poem is really superb. Kudos man!

Updated: Jeez, I'm a prophet. Look what I just saw on the ActiveState site Visual Perl and Visual Python will leverage Visual Studio 7.0