Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times MoMA expects to have the building demolished by the end of this year. Go to related article »This poem, one of 12 winners of our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest, was written by Alison, 23, from Boston. The poem comes from the article “12-Year-Old Building at MoMA Is Doomed”.
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Architects
As children, we borrowed feelings of loss
as we envisioned that new, vacant parcel
of Manhattan skyline, towers demolished.
We built stories of that place, the lives,
ambitious in the heights of our preservation.
12 years later, school completed, we start out.
We finance our hopes with thoughtful work
and solid looking facades. We are a generation
keeping with history. We are a temporary time
and a temporary space, but we are still being.
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