FULL MOON

                               IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON,  BUT IT WOULDN'T BE MAKE BELIEVE IF YOU BELIEVED IN ME.  WITHOUT YOUR LOVE,IT'S A HONKY TONK PARADE-A MELODY PLAYED IN A PENNY ARACADE.

                                 THE FULL MOON IS COMING.  IT'S 97 PER CENT FULL IN ITS WAXING GIBBOUS STAGE.  IT WAS CLEAR AND BRIGHT LAST NIGHT OVER VINEYARD SOUND JUST AFTER SUNSET ALREADY HIGH IN THE SKY.  I HAD GONE TO HIGHFIELD AND WALKED IN BEEBE WOODS AND THEN SAW THE NEW MODERN ART ALMOST GRAFITI LIKE PRTRAIT PAINTINGS BY ONEAL FROM BARNSTABLE. THERE WAS A RECEPTION WITH HORS D'OEUVRES AND DRINKS ON THE PATIO AND INSIDE THE MANSION.  A WOMAN FROM MASHPEE WON THE $25,000 PRIUS CAR THAT WAS AUCTIONED OFF.
                                  BEFORE GOING TO HIGHFIELD, I ATTEMPTED TO GOTO THE LIGHTHOUSE VIA SHORE ROAD.  BUT THERE WAS STILL A DEEP PUDDLE FROM THE RECENT RAINS.  SO I HEADED FOR QUISSET HARBOR AND WALKED OUT TO THE KNOB.  THEN I TOOK ANOTHER ROAD TO THE LIGHTHOUSE TO PLACE A SMALL FLAG ON THE MEMORIAL TO AN AMERICAN AIRLINES STEWARDESS FROM MASSACHUSETTS WHO WAS KILLED WHEN THE TERRORISTS CRASHED HER PLANE INTO ONE OF THE TWIN TOWERS ON SEPTEMBER 11,2001 IN NYC.  A WEDDING WAS JUST ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE AT THE LIGHTHOUSE. 
                                   SO THOSE WERE MY MEANDERINGS ON THE WEEKEND OF THE FULL MOON AND THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11TH.  THE TERRORISTS CRASHED AIRLINERS INTO THE PENTAGON AND WERE HEADING FOR THE WHITE HOUSE OR CAPITOL BUILDING WHEN THE PASSENGERS OVERPOWERED THE TERRORISTS AND CRASHED THE PLANE INTO A FIELD IN PENNSYLVANIA.  FINALLY A MEMORIAL IS BEING SET UP THERE TOO.  I THINK IT'S TREES. EVERY CITY IN AMERICA HAS A NEW BASEBALL STADIUM EXCEPT BOSTON.  WHY IT TAKES SO LONG TO ERECT A FEW MEMORIALS FOR ONE OF THE MOST MOMENTOUS EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY IS BEYOND ME.  OUR ONLY RECOGNITION OF THE TERRORIST THREAT WAS THE REMOVAL OF OUR SHOES SO THEY COULD BE XRAYED BEFORE WE BOARDED AN AIRPLANE.