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Overloading the Machine

Here, the Sky

Mars will gamble or will not be
Mars rather than cinder rather

that it might be
cinder to perpetuate size of it

I perpetuate Mars
it may not be it is

size cupped here I can
size cinder very much my Mars

to have been cupped as size
to fell it as it is and

size I cupped
size can if burden
(which is burden) is

burden size can burden me
one knows a size for Mars (if Mars
is Mars)

one is one knows
one knows this gamble:

Mars Mars gamble for Mars

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"