Day Sixteen

Today's words:

Cartridge

Flywheel

Nanny

Jump

Hooligan

Lemonade

"The ink is in the cartridge

"And flows when needed, like a flywheel

"Stores energy for future use." "Very good," said Nanny,

"Now jump

"Down and let's head home. If you don't act the hooligan

"Too much we'll have a glass of lemonade

"When we get there." She made the lemonade

By putting a cartridge

Of powder in a machine. Meanwhile Jake, the hooligan

Next door, showed off, using the flywheel

On his bike to power a jump

Over the hedge while his nanny

Looked on helplessly. My own nanny

Would never allow such antics. Withholding lemonade

Was the least of her weapons. A well-placed shout could make you jump

Out of your skin, and I once saw her load a cartridge

Into a shotgun.  The next day Jake's flywheel

Was all shot up. But what do you expect to happen to a hooligan?

He's bound to have bad acquaintances. "A hooligan

Will get his just desserts," said Nanny,

And I didn't doubt it. I'd seen what became of his flywheel.

So I was good, and drank my lemonade

And put a new cartridge

In my game console. It was a game where you had to jump

Over a pit of fire. If you missed the jump

The police arrested you as a hooligan.

"Enough play," said Nanny,

"Give me the cartridge.

"And I'll make you a glass of lemonade.

"Now go have a look at that flywheel."

But the flywheel

Wasn't working, so I took a jump

Off the bike. Last summer I had a lemonade

Stand, but some hooligan

Ran off with my money. I went home to Nanny

With nothing but an empty cartridge.

If you need to use the energy stored in the flywheel, like a hooligan

Does to make the jump, then it's likely your nanny

Has something other than lemonade in that cartridge.