The Statue of Liberty is Down and Out in Harlem

- Gotham Times, every edition

hey, there, old lady ... maybe you push your shopping cart full of the ideas we have about ourselves down the street ... maybe you're just that kind of gal who goes by stealth, acting as though freedom were a kind of countraband ... that worn as you are, tattered as is your dress ... you try to re-light your torch with a few match sticks you pick up off the ground ... chased by the wind and the knowledge that whenever we go to war, we go to war at home, quashing the voices that have sustained us ...

- Craig Teichen