Friday, September 02, 2005

Failed Civil Order

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Unless those tired and poor are already here,
In which case I will smother them...
Those wretched refuse on my own battered shores
Those homeless and tempest-tossed,
I crush them, dead and dying, by my own indifference!