POTTER FRANKLIN, BOY GENIUS


	Can I look inside your VCR? To see how it works?  You don’t have to
 worry.  I won’t hurt myself.
	When I took apart my Dad’s computer - it’s got wires and circuits 
and screws and stuff, and that thing you put the CD in (which I didn’t know
you could break just by pushing on it too hard), and all those things they 
stick in the back, and the fan, and the screen, and - anyway, when I took 
that apart, nothing bad happened to me at all.  Not even when I took apart 
that big box the power comes from, the one that says "Dangerous - do not
open."  Anyway, my Dad’s new computer works even better.
	I have to look at stuff, because I’m very-very-very smart. So 
someday I’ll invent something super important, like a time machine or a mind
controller or a really big bomb or something.  So then you’ll be famous too,
because you helped me learn about stuff.  See?  That’s why you have to do it.
	Don’t`worry.  I know how.  I’ll unplug it first.
	Don’t worry.  Really. I won’t hurt myself. 
	I never do.


COPYRIGHT 1997, Jim Chevallier