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The End and the Beginning

By Wisława Szymborska

After every war

someone has to clean up.

Things won’t

straighten themselves up, after all.

Someone has to push the rubble

to the side of the road,

so the corpse-filled wagons

can pass.

Someone has to get mired

in scum and ashes,

sofa springs,

splintered glass,

and bloody rags.

Someone has to drag in a girder

to prop

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I could probably write an essay on how the MOMA demolished the Folk Art Museum by Williams and Tsien in NYC. The FAM was a masterpiece, it’s known for the facade, but the interior was special too. I think it went out of business. MOMA was next door, and instead of acknowledging the museum as a work of art, they figured big open spaces would be flex

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