It happened quite quickly, as if in a dream:
A supervisor engine just died with a scream.
The standby stepped up and it handled the mess,
but the active supervisor expired from stress.
Vendors were called and replacements were sought,
but none could be found, it all was for naught.
For it seems, you see, this part was EOL,
and for all our best efforts, we were SOL.
But there was a new option, a possible fix:
We could throw a new supervisor into the mix.
But it wasn’t that easy, for it lived in slot five,
