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Jessica

It was in the past,

but now I’m going past…

the canal…where…Jessica died.

Indeed it was long ago,

yet I remember, I remember.

 

Stay up late.

Used to stay up late and watch…

Jessica on the magic screen.

So cool, so cool was she.

One of my many,

one of my many,

newfound fantasies.

 

So this is it, this is it.

The canal where Jessica died.

The water’s not very deep,

yet deep enough.

Just one wrong turn in the rain and…..

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4 Comments

  1. Damn..
    This one got me in the feels.
    Godspeed Jessica.

    With that said, enjoyed the repetition & the way you “gently” explained her death.

    • Thank you Rome again, however Jessica is about the late Jessica Savitch a news anchor on NBC during the late 70’s early 80’s. She and another news person did actually drown in the Delaware Canal in New Hope Pennsylvania when they made a wrong turn during a rainstorm in 1983. I rode bikes many times down that towpath there, and when I read some history about the area and found this out, it always made me think when I went past there, hence I wrote “Jessica”, and yes I did remember her on TV anchoring the nightly newscast when I was a little kid. Yeah I’m that old.

  2. Aww. Such a sad piece that got to me. Well written and sorry about this.

    • Thanks Jarid, but Jessica is about Jessica Savitch, a news anchor on NBC during the late 70’s , early 80’s. She did actually die in the Delaware Canal when the car she was in made a wrong turn. I rode along that bike trail many times, so I wrote this. I do remember her on TV when I was a kid, but I didn’t remember hearing about her death until I read about it actually just recently. Yes I’m that old.

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