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It is something you make after you've weighed your options.
When this is found in a road you are forced to make a decision.
It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?
Why is 6 afraid of 7?
You could do this to a motion, see it on a watch, or place this in a race.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.