Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Goodnight Liberty

"Give me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free"

Statue of Liberty/Instagram @saharishtiaque
Footnote1: Before they're returned to the slaughter
Or left to drown in the sea

"The wretched refuse of your teeming shore"
Footnote 2: Including darling beached babies risen from the ocean floor

"Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me"
Footnote 3: Since the ‪#‎AllLivesMatter‬ folk care about homelessness (finally!)

"I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
Footnote 4: Erected and sustained in part by our pesky war.


(I’m only being a little silly. Footnote 5: The worst of things makes one laugh. See Arabic Proverbs. Also see Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus," Statue of Liberty Inscription, 1883.)