Liberty Spinster

Liberty Spinster

Liberty Spinster

Statue of immigrants
Down from your pinnacle!
Shake of indifference!
Light your torch
To clear your polluted sky
So you may breathe!
Aerate the countless cells
Millions of souls are smothered in!


Move your Republican arm
Along the Avenues and smite down
Manhattan’s slanders
Of your once-sacred name!


Rush down to the harbor
Then on to Kennedy Airport
To stop the  genocide loads
Destined to annihilate ex-dreamers of you!


Grabbed by the merciless claws
Of your heavens’ scrapers
I suffocate amidst drugged mobs
Warding off bankruptcy heart attacks
By chewing each other’s skin
And stabbing each other’s back
In daylight full assurance
While deafening doomsday sirens zoom
Through panicked alleys
To pick nervousbrokendown  bodies
Grey-cious Lady! Don’t stand
So restful
While North inherits South
Streaming Montgomery stains
Along the Pioneers’ Roads
From watts to Kent , from L.A. to Ivy League !


Below your sullen eyes
Your helpless grandchildren
Sail away
In search of zero –peace
While newcomers’ hopes are scorched
In your simmering melting pot!