The (F. Scott) Key Bridge Incident

Epigrammata XLVIII

I can assure you my friend, the purpose of a bridge is not to collapse.

"In my day," to them I said
"If more than five were thus found dead
"There was one favored conspiracy
"Or two- and in decades, three.
"Indian crew, captain from Ukraine
"Bridge just popped, in the wrong lane
"Power outages, maintenance failed--
"The AI that scripted this be hailed!
"But truth: fiction to the real has paled."