Replace Me

Our heat and a/c units, Which are mounted on the wall, Have remote controls for every room, Which workers did install. The living room, since larger, Has another cool device With a touch-screen, though the room’s remote Would certainly suffice. Still, we were told to use the screen Instead of the remote To heat or cool that space and so, We’ve listened to that note. A tap relays the temperature Or lets us then adjust The way we want the air to flow And it has earned our trust… Until we found the screen gone blank. New batteries did yield A simple message, loud and clear - “Replace me,” it revealed. Imagine all our objects With the power to command. It feels like science fiction’s Somehow gained the upper hand.