Poet and activist Eileen Myles’s announcement of her run for president as an “openly female candidate” on September 11, 1991 inspired the writing of the poem, “I Want a President” by artist Zoe Leonard. As this year’s election nears, that poem, which includes lines such as “I want a dyke for president,” will be featured in a 20-by-30-foot display on a western pillar of the Standard Hotel in the High Line, a public park in New York, from October 11 to November 17.

According to Vice, High Line cofounder Robert Hammond believes the piece is relevant today, even though it was written twenty-four years ago; the poem is, as a whole, an expression of a desire to have an “outsider” as an elected leader. But, Melanie Kress, assistant curator at High Line Art, is careful to add, that doesn’t mean the poem should dissuade anyone from voting for the current Democratic nominee.

“While there is a great power and beauty to calling loudly for the kind of leadership you truly yearn for—a kind of leadership that extends far beyond what we are told the available options are—it’s also important to acknowledge the limitations of the system in which we all live,” said Kress. “In Zoe’s own words, the stakes are too high this year to fuck around.”

Eileen Myles concurred in an interview with The New York Times earlier this year: “Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she’s a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. I want a ‘she’ in the White House now.”

The poem was originally published in a now defunct queer magazine, and later became a hit in feminist circles. It was published in 2006 as a postcard by LTTR, a feminist genderqueer art journal, and recently recited by rapper Mykki Blanco in a YouTube video.

Related reading: Senator Bernie Sanders will be promoting his book, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, at the Miami Book Fair on November 19, Miami New Times reports. Other presenters include the Daily Show host Trevor Noah and Eileen Myles.

Photo Credit: Friends of the High Line (click image to enlarge)