Under the Harvest Moon

Saturday night, the whole town was at the Harvest Moon Fest,

It was free, after all, and you couldn’t do better than that.

The City held it in the historic visitor’s center,

Really known as the Wal-Mart parking lot,

So you could stroll in and get some batteries, duck tape and a six-pack,

Before conquering the Moon Bounce and buying a hand painted gun rack.

Well, my editor sent me to take photos,

And it’s amazing what the camera sees,

Like Darth Vader flirting with Nefertiti.

The Fire Department’s oogling the Park and Rec girls again,

So you best hope no one knocks over their Jack O Lantern tonight,

Looks like our boys are otherwise occupied.

Turn the corner and there’s the newlyweds making out,

A Kleenex Box chasing a Pizza Slice with pigtails.

The psychic just told a little girl she was going to grow up and have seven children,

While being an astronaut, curing cancer and winning Miss America Christian.

If she offers up some ocean front property,

I’m going to call over the belly dancers,

And get their slithery friend to help squeeze the truth out of her.

Man, won’t that make for a great picture!

Grandma’s pitching a fit in the face painting line,

Wrinkled butterfly wings across her nose wasn’t what she had in mind.

Guess she and the grandkid won’t be twins after all,

But there’s always the henna tattoos,

If the preacher doesn’t leave the Lutheran Church booth.

The Celtic dancers are starting up,

Clogs don’t really work on grass, but they’re smiling,

You got to give them props for trying.

The professor is having a conniption

Because the mentalist guessed his birthday on a magical Post it,

Better get a close up of the enchanted dice while I’m at it.

Someone tugs on my dress,

And what do I see,

But three little princesses grinning up at me.

“Excuse me, ma’am, can you take our picture?  We’d like to be in the paper.”

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