The Second Domino

When the first job stumbled and fell—
The second came crashing as well.
Then third, then the rest,
A cascading test,
And twelve jobs fell under the spell.

The Second Domino waited in line—
For the first one to fail out of time.
The moment it broke,
A sequence of stroke,
And nothing but failures aligned.

One failed job toppled them all—
Twelve follow-ups answered the call.
Each one built upon
What came before—gone—
And the Second watched over the fall.

The Second created a loop—
Where failures just fell through the scoop.
It fell over down,
Then back up—no crown—
Round and round went the infinite troop.

The logs showed the cascade laid bare—
First job failed; nobody would care.
The rest all fell after,
In tragic disaster,
With Second controlling the snare.

When the precondition went wrong,
The Second knew it all along.
It fell like it should,
In ways fully understood,
And dragged all the rest down with song.

The cascade logs showed the great fall—
The Second had caused it all.
By waiting in place,
For the first-job disgrace,
It toppled and proved it was tall.

The Second claims rest by sequence—
The precondition’s consequence.
One fails, then the pile,
Falling all the while,
And nothing but failures immense.