Scheduled Exception Board Deferred Maintenance Into Canonical Hazard

The maintenance ran through seven
Rounds of risk review, eleven
Signatures deep—
Then it went smooth as sleep.
And that was the problem, apparently.

It completed on time and clean.
No tickets. No one convened.
COMA looked back:
“Suspiciously slack.
Significant change should have keened.”

CAB recorded it thus:
A model execution. A plus.
Continuity review
Said: we construe
Success as a cause for suspicion’s fuss.

Both records were filed by archive staff
Who declined to harmonize the gaffe:
One marked it model.
One marked it: coddle
For systems that need a scar’s chafe.

A draft doctrine circulates now:
Approved change is safest somehow
When it fails a bit—
Slight failure permits
That something authorized happened. Avow.

No board claims that sentence at all.
It keeps appearing, in different scrawl,
In margins of forms,
In advisory norms—
Nobody’s authorship. Free-for-all.

Silence during approved window:
Was it competence or window-
Dressing, concealed?
The panel revealed:
Depends on which calendar you follow.

The archive holds both interpretations
Without comment, without citations
Adjudicating which
Is correct. The rich
Contradiction: both are patient.

Materially significant change
Should leave a scar in the range
Of continuity’s view.
This left none. The crew
Says: absence of scar is the strange.

One hospitality delay’s preserved
As “Minutes of the Third Witness Served
Coffee.” Nothing
Was decided. Something
About the ritual is observed.