Perhaps subconsciously,  
                                     the Statue of Liberty
inspired Miss America & the Coney Island
        Mermaid Pageant;
   & being on the water
w/ her lower half sheathed
         in a concealing stola,
                    behind big bronze toes
                                   perhaps there lurks      
                                              the scaly green tail
      of a gargantuan fish;
                          the lady
   in her original form was intended to be naked
but the Puritans running 
       New York wouldn't
have it; but still in all,   it's very easy to imagine
Lady Liberty in a swimsuit
                          or the buff;     green
the way she is, pictures of the statue would be
used as pinups; women imitating
                              her style if not
her complexion;          the slight green patina of
                                                             olive skin