For My Hometown Heroes
The Massapequa Little League Softball Girls aged twelve and under are the 2023 World Series champions.
This is Massapequa.
This place where Massapequa Moms
fight to unmask their children,
allow team mascots represent leadership
“Once be a Chief,
always a Chief.”
A place where girls parade in successes and athleticism,
not deteriorated in prostitution.
Once known for Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher.
Her failed attempt of killing her married boyfriend’s wife Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
Shooting her in the face into deformity
on a Biltmore Shores doorstep.
This is not my Massapequa.
More recent Rex Heuermann
known as the Gilgo Beach Serial Killer responsible for the unsolved murders of escorts now connected around the country.
This is not my Massapequa.
Despite Jerry Seinfeld, Brian Setzer, and the Baldwins all have lived in this suburban neighborhood at some point.
It was also home for over forty years to Doris Wahl, my mother.
She, the first woman starter of Track and Field at the Olympic Games Atlanta, Georgia 1996.
This is my Massapequa.
It is with proudness that I declare this extraordinary place to live.
Honored to be a woman of the Massapequas.
