Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

There was yet another ghastly tragedy in New York this morning, a plane crash in Queens on the Rockaway peninsula.  It was an American Airlines jet heading out from JFK on its way to the Dominican Republic; they think there was a mechanical failure as opposed to another terror attack.  Seems like one of the engines might have exploded, which made the wing fall off, which made the plane go into a corkscrew and straight into the ground.  255 souls on board and they don’t expect to find any survivors at all.  Jesus…!!  And this is a neighborhood that had already lost something like 75 of its residents from the World Trade Center attacks just two months ago… firemen, policemen and people who worked in the WTC.  And now this.  Poor New York!!!  But, it is a tiny consolation that it’s probably not another terror strike.  Everyone’s so on edge about terrorism and flying in general… it’s always the first thing on people’s minds when they hear any bad news.

John called me from work this morning to wake me up with the news… he knew I’d rather find out than keep sleeping.  So I laid on the couch and watched the news on TV and slept a little more.

I’ve been working on some rhymes over the past few nights, trying to pull a new song together.  All I can come up with is a bunch of corniness though, nothing that I can really go to town with.  Gotta keep trying, just keep trying until something comes out that’s worth repeating!