Moran/Friedan

Daniel Thomas Moran
Suffolk County Poet Laureate

Never Cross a Woman
For Eileen

There she comes, as if from
nowhere, Betty Friedan,
the Mother of all wo-
man, The feminine my-
stic lobbying just-
ice with an upraised
fist, high priestess of
uterine actual-
ization. There she came in
a rusty old Ply
mouth daring as she must to
navigate the tight
spots; careening off of
the nice lady’s
new Beemer in the noon-
time bedlam of a Sag
Harbor summer and step-
ped out to the con-
frontation. The lady said,
“Save the speech, Betty. Who’s
going to pay for the god-
damned crease in my door? When
my husband sees this he’s going to kill
me.”

Daniel Thomas Moran was born in New York City on March 9, 1957. In 1962 his family moved to Massapequa on Long island… In 1987 he purchased a Dental practice on New York’s Shelter Island…In 1988 he gave his first public reading at the famed Canio’s Books in Sag Harbor, NY along with a poet who would become one of his greatest influences, the late Dan Murray… Since 1997, Dr. Moran has been a Trustee to The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills, NY where he founded The Long Island School of Poetry Series. He presently serves as The Birthplace’s Vice-President. He was appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate in April, 2005. Street Press has just released The Light of the City and Sea, an anthology of Suffolk County Poets edited by Moran who believes this anthology represents the Long Island School of Poetry.

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