Corruptible machines
causing uncontrolled grief,
crashing endlessly on.
Cabernet can help soothe
caches caught in turmoil;
chardonnay helps as well.
Caffeine won’t help at all.
Author's Notes/Comments:
Pleiades
This titled form was invented in 1999 by Craig Tigerman, Sol Magazine's Lead Editor. Only one word is allowed in the title followed by a single seven-line stanza. The first word in each line begins with the same letter as the title. Hortensia Anderson, a popular haiku and tanka poet, added her own requirement of restricting the line length to six syllables.
