Rituals For Computer Operation                     
                                                              
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           Would    You    Consider    Code    Golf           
           To    Be    A     Kind    Of     Prayer?           
           As    In,   You   Make   A   Convoluted,           
           Intricate,   Beautiful,    And   Useless           
           Artifact.  As  In,  You'Re   Using  Your           
           Skills    To    Ask    For    Something,           
                                                              
           ...I'D   Ask  For  A  Handful  Of  Bugs?           
                                                              
           Code    Has   Bugs,    Lots    Of    It.