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Black Boxes

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Black Boxes
(Nick Krukovsky)

Black boxes on the prelim
Black boxes nice and linear
Black boxes, black boxes
Black boxes all the same

There's an active one and a passive one
And a simple one and a hairy one
And they're all made of ideal elements
And they all fake you out the same

And the ideal elements
Were made at the university
Where they all got put in boxes
Black boxes all the same

To make servos and counters
And other electronic elements
But they all have stray reactance
So they fake you out the same

And their fields have no fringing
And reactance has no losses
And the parts are nicely lumped
In the boxes all the same

And no matter what the input
You should always know the output
Of the boxes, black boxes
But they all fake you out the same

And the boxes go into radios
And lasers and computers
Into still bigger boxes
Black boxes all the same

And professors and authors
And engineers by the thousands
Build more boxes, black boxes
And they all fake you out the same

SOF

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