Daniel Thomas Moran (1957 - )
In 1974, Dr. Moran attempted to rid himself of the curse of a Long Island accent by taking a job making pizzas at Sbarro's in the Massapequa Sunrise Mall. Says Doc Moran, ''I attempted an Italian accent but being I was in the hometown of The Godfather, Carlo Gambino, no one noticed. I made the pizza with strict instructions on how much cheese to place upon them and was ordered to use a small unobtrusive scale so as to be exact. My generous, artistic side scoffed at the whole system. One day early in my career, I was standing looking foolish in my pizza maker outfit awaiting ridicule from people who amuse themselves by spending time in malls, when I noticed an affable, well dressed gentleman marveling at my abilities with the piel. I laid out the dough and slathered on the sauce and cheese with abandon. That evening I found out that I had not impressed the gent in the least, who turned out to be Mr. Sbarro, who suggested that I be fired immediately. It was at that moment, feeling utterly destroyed as a human being that I decided to write poetry.''
Poems
- When the Pope Died
- The Other Mother's Day
- More Sacred Stains
- Last Rites
- The Pathetic Results of A Brief Moment of Someone Else's Pleasure
- Fruit Trees
- Joined at the Head
- Ah, To Wax Asinine
- An Ode To Dame Edna
- The Almost Next-to-Last Castaway
- Modern Pharmacology
- The Menu
- In Case of Disaster
- The Last Days of Limbo
- A Quail's Best Friend, or The Great Hunting Mishap
- A Primer on Eco-Terrorism
- To the Bug Who Perished in My Drink
- The Truth about Art
- Sonnet on an Orange Slaughter
- Joseph the Carpenter
- Pillz
- The Pope Gets Really Hot
- Alec Baldwin Invades Ireland
- My Special Lover
- For the Love of Tasers
- A Sonnet for Our Lesbians in Orbit
- I Liked the Old Sins Better
- Al Gore on The Rocks
- Mr. Happy and His Friends
- Sick as a Pig
- Bernie Madoff's Blues
- Gay Pride always Begins in the South End
- Coloring Books
- The Girls of Vancouver 2010
- The Ballad of Cardinal Bernard Law
- After Being Mistaken for Steven Spielberg for the Seventh Time
- Un Brindisi a Silvio Berlusconi
- Death by Melon
- Oh, Seattle!
- Re-Digging the Beats while Driving a Little below the Speed Limit in Search of the Dharmashala in a a Quasi-Hipster Fellaheen Stream of Consciousness
- The Man from an Unknown Place