by Nick Gisburne
We like to be upgraded, now and then;
Mechanicals need maintenance to work.
Examining the list, we check again,
And find a small but questionable quirk.
We all expected servos, coils and springs,
Hydraulics, pistons, cylinders and cogs,
But, just below these fundamental things,
We find a strange, exotic item: FROGS.
A full replacement, maybe? Of... of what?
A system, that’s the ‘S’, but leaves the ‘G’.
Our gears are shown in sequence. This is not.
We speculate, but none of us agree.
The visiting mechanic soon explains.
“A typo. ‘B’. I’m here to wipe your brains.”
