“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” – It says. So, they can flood the concrete and fill these shallows mountains of stone. It will indulge you, it whispers promising. Healing sick, healing the wounds of the lost, it says, requires to; Lose what you loved, valued, believed for it takes too much space, that you cannot afford, for it has no place among things. For the only dogma in this city, is that of the materialist. Run for your life, every day! I say. Run from job to job for pay. For this is the freedom of the rich, for this is the freedom of inheritance and kitsch, of nepotism and glitz - for this, is the lie of capitalism veiled in deformed socialism and hollow dreams. Do not look up in the sky! He says. For there are no stars to see No wishes to set you free from the prime time that shines at you from every screen, buy two for one, spend more to get some THING free, buy your own fun Now! and Here! For Money. Money for things, for money is the only thing that provides the idea of freedom sold at every turn, for money is all that is left of self, or other. But is this what you yearn? What you see is not me. It is a snippet of a magazine, a series I have seen on screen, a narrative I desire to fulfill, a movie I have bought into, a style that screams: I have been to… For things are all that is left of thee. Give me your sick, your tired, your wounded, your poor, your lost and huddled masses. It will take us no time to expose their empty reflections, and ugly grimaces. Make them stranger to their own culture. Make them stranger to their own smiles. I will become the mold on their wounds, I will infect them with the lies of the “free”. And when I am done with thee, or you resist to be my idea of success – It will take them away! These tired. These poor. These huddled masses. For it has no air for them to breathe. For they have nothing more to give ME For without their work they have no worth. I no longer tolerate to constipate their illusions of revolutions and self-worth. I eagerly anticipate truth.