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Make Mine Mars



C. M. Kornbluth




Make Mine Mars



"X is for the ecstasy she ga-a-ave me; E is for her eyesтАФone, two, and three-ee; T is for the teeth with
which she'd sha-a-ave me; S is for her scales of i-vo-ree-ee-ee ..."



Somebody was singing, and my throbbing head objected. I teemed to have a mouthful of sawdust



T is for her tentacles ah-round me;



J is for her jowlsтАФwere none soo-oo fair;
H is for the happy day she found me; 'Fe is for the iron in her hair..,"



I ran my tongue around inside my mouth. It was full of sawdustтАФspruce and cedar, rocketed in from
Earth.



"Put them all to-gether, they spell Xetstjhfe . . ."



My eyes snapped open, and I sat up, cracking my head on the тАвnderside of the table beneath which I
was lying. I lay down waited for the pinwheels to stop spinning. I tried to it out. Spruce and cedar . .
.Honest Blogri's Olde Earthe Saloon . . . eleven stingers with a Sirian named Wenjtkpli...



"A worrud that means the wur-r-l-l-d too-oo mee-ee-ee!"