November 10, 2015

NEWSPAPER   NAMES 

Every day the newspaper presents the names
of thousands and thousands of people. Obituaries,
married, arrested, honored, dishonored, athletes.

Surprise! There's the name of someone I went to
school with. That must be the daughter of that gal
I worked with. That must be a mistake. Oh no!

Then we spot the sad headlines: plane crashes, boat
sinks, and our heart sinks because we know the 
horror of it all. Kids left behind. Impact for life.

Then for some reason someone writes a song about
a horror and the song helps the rest of us for years
to come - like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2015
Today, November 10, 2015
is the 40th Anniversary of the sinking
of the Edmund Fitzgerald.