My first attempt wound up in a drastic STATE,
ERODEd my ideas of birth and death and fate.
Perhaps this second try will be more TASTY,
WACKY even, not like a undercooked pastie.
Nope, the thing insists on being WACKY,
a STATE of things I know is tacky.
TASTY it’s not, and hasn’t flowed –
it’s caused my hard-won lines to ERODE.
Intriguing:
_A
B_
_C
D_
_D
A_
C_
_B
Inspiration of a formal sort?
Would have been better if I’d managed to do it forwards and backwards!