EmpireVerse (v1): Chain of Diamonds

I've probably missed countless opportunities to offer up some EmpireVerse over the years. 

My Sonofa Gov, Andrew Cuomo, has long been willing to babble and pontificate and expound upon any and all topics, without a whole lot of restraint. 

There was the time he said there was no room in NY for extreme conservatives, and the time he told us he sleeps just fine because he knows he's going to do the right thing. 

And the time he famously said America was never that great... that was a good one, too.

Those opportunities are behind us, though, so I'm starting fresh with this one section of his 2021 State of the State address. Taken from his closing argument, if you will, it speaks to the pressures New York faced in 2020 and how we'll handle whatever 2021 has in store.

A Chain of Diamonds

But pressure also forges 

strength and that's

how diamonds are formed.

In 2020 when things 

were at their worst

we saw New Yorkers 

at their best.

The pressure was on and 

we all saw New Yorkers
under pressure
become diamonds.
And they worked 

together

they linked arms.
New Yorkers were

a magnificent chain 

of diamonds, 

different sizes,
different colors, 

different shapes,
different orientations, 

but the chain

connected all.

And the chain
is strong, my friends.
It will 

unite.
It will 

forge community. 

It will 

combine our strength.

We 

have 

done it
before 

and 
we will 

do it 

again.