Statue of Liberty Speaks: “My Arm’s Tired”

After more than a century of silence, the Statue of Liberty has finally spoken. Yesterday evening, as the last few tourists climbed her viewing platforms, she shocked the U.S. and the rest of the world when she revealed her ability to communicate.

The young girl who spoke to her, however, wasn’t surprised at all.

Maria Gonzalez, daughter of two Cuban immigrants who came to America in search of a better life, said she had always wanted to see the iconic statue because of all that she had meant to her parents.

And from the moment she arrived in New York harbor, she struck up a conversation with her favorite lady, asking her about her likes and hobbies and if she ever had a boyfriend.

It was when she asked her how she was doing, that she actually replied.

“Maria was simply too cute to not say anything,” Lady Liberty said. “And she and her family are exactly who I want to feel welcome here.”

Later on, when members of the press came, they followed up on why her arm was so tired.

“You try holding this lamp up for over a hundred years,” she said to Fox news. “Besides, with all of your new immigration laws, is it even worth it anymore?”

“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.”

-Emma Lazarus